Spain Airbnb Market, August 2026: Occupancy, Rates and Revenue by Area

Estimated revenue in Marbella, at $9,419, is 3.7 times that of Puerto de la Cruz, at $2,530. Occupancy does little of that separating. Nerja, Roses and Marbella are level on occupancy, each at 81%. Nerja asks $238 a night and Roses asks $251 a night, against $426 a night in Marbella. Nerja, at $5,320, and Roses, at $5,317, each sit 44% below Marbella on estimated revenue.

Benahavís, Estepona and Mijas Costa ask $400, $329 and $315 a night, and their estimated revenue sits 4%, 27% and 28% below Marbella's. Maspalomas, Corralejo and Los Cristianos ask $146, $144 and $153 a night, and each sits 67% below Marbella on estimated revenue, even though Corralejo's 77% occupancy matches that of Estepona and Mijas Costa.

An area figure is a starting filter, never a decision on a specific property. Even in the strongest areas the best-run listings clear far more than it, and the weakest far less. Brixfox computes per-property yield on this same calendar data so an area read like this becomes a specific, underwritable decision.

On the same listings, hosts ask 0.45 to 1.02 times their August rate for October stays across 14 of Spain’s 16 regions, and 0.56 to 1.36 times for December stays across 13 of Spain’s 16 regions. Asking rates show how hosts price the months ahead, not how full those months get. Our night-by-night archive began on 22 July 2026, so August 2026 is the first complete month it covers. Underwrite on all twelve months, never on August × 12.

Brixfox tracks 1.2M+ short-term-rental listings across 50+ countries and territories. For the listings whose Airbnb calendars it reads, it keeps each night’s final booked-or-open state in a night-by-night archive that began on 22 July 2026. This post covers August 2026, the first complete month that archive covers, and the listings we track in Spain (the 16 regions our Spain page covers) with a full August calendar (25 or more nights observed). A listing counts as performing if it booked at least 10% of the month’s nights; occupancy and nightly rate are medians across performing listings, and estimated revenue is the median of each performing listing’s own estimate — its occupancy × its advertised nightly rate × 31 nights — which is not the two medians multiplied together and usually sits a little below that product. Nightly rates are what hosts advertise for August stays — Airbnb does not publish what a night actually sold for. A night closed on the calendar counts as booked, so some owner-blocked nights remain in the figures; calendars closed almost end to end with no detected booking are left out as unverifiable, and so are listings our data engine flags as likely owner-blocked. An area needs at least 100 performing listings, 50 of them with an advertised rate, to appear. The seasonality ratios compare the same listings’ advertised rates for those months (the median of each listing’s ratio). Informational, not investment advice.