Bali Airbnb Performance by Area: Occupancy, Nightly Rates and Revenue Compared

The gap between the weakest and the strongest areas is mostly rate, not occupancy. Ten of the twelve areas booked between 77% and 87% of August nights, but the median advertised rate runs from $130 in North Bali to $231 in Seminyak. Uluwatu is the area that combines both: the highest occupancy on the island and the second-highest rate.

Depth matters for a different reason. Ubud and Canggu together hold 6,019 of the 14,733 performing listings — just over two in five — so they set the island’s averages, and they are where a new listing meets the most direct competition. The smaller areas trade that competition for thinner demand: in North Bali the median listing books about two nights in three.

Every figure in this table is a median across the actively-rented listings in that area. That is the right starting point for eliminating clearly unsuitable markets, but it is not a substitute for per-property analysis. Within Seminyak’s 1,555 performing listings, individual villas span a wide band: a dated two-bedroom at the wrong end of the street can sit well below the $5,400 estimate, while a well-designed four-bedroom with a pool and professional management can exceed it materially.

Brixfox computes per-property yield estimates by analysing comparable listings individually — matching on bedroom count, proximity and listing quality — rather than applying the area median as a flat assumption. If you are underwriting a specific villa, the table above is where the conversation starts, not where it ends.

August is one of Bali’s strongest months, but Bali is also the least seasonal market we track: on the same listings, hosts ask about 0.94 times their August rate for December stays. Our night-by-night archive began in July 2026, so we have not yet observed a Bali wet season. Underwrite on all twelve months, never on August × 12.

Brixfox tracks 1.4M+ short-term-rental listings across 30+ 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 Bali listings we track 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. Areas follow our geocoded neighbourhood grouping. The December-versus-August ratio compares the same Bali and Lombok listings’ advertised rates for the two months (the median of each listing’s ratio). Informational, not investment advice.