Portugal Airbnb August 2026: Occupancy, Nightly Rates and Estimated Revenue

Occupancy is tightly grouped. Albufeira, Cascais, Portimão, Nazaré, Armação de Pêra and Vilamoura all sit at 84% occupancy, and Funchal, Calheta and Óbidos at 81%; Faro, at 77%, stands apart. Nightly rates vary far more, from $149 in Faro to $362 in Vilamoura, and estimated revenue tracks them. Vilamoura asks $362 a night at 84% occupancy and has estimated revenue of $8,622. Albufeira asks $329 a night at 84% occupancy, with estimated revenue of $7,499. Cascais asks $229 a night at 84% occupancy, with estimated revenue of $5,640.

The same pattern shows lower down the table. Funchal asks $217 a night at 81% occupancy, with estimated revenue of $4,783. Calheta asks $206 a night at 81% occupancy, with estimated revenue of $4,629. Calheta's estimated revenue is 46% below Vilamoura's. Luz, with 85% occupancy and a $316 nightly rate, grossed an estimated $7,107. Nazaré, at 84% occupancy and $203 a night, has estimated revenue of $4,493.

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.

Across Portugal’s 8 regions, hosts ask 0.55 to 0.98 times their August rate for October stays and 0.48 to 0.85 times for December, on the same listings. 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 1.4M+ 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 listings we track in Portugal (the 8 regions our Portugal 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.