St. Martin Airbnb Performance by Area in 2026

Data by Brixfox · · Updated

Ocean wave under pink clouds — Brixfox short-term-rental data by area, 2026

Short-term-rental returns on St. Martin vary widely by area — and by season. The table below shows what about 2,200 actively-rented Airbnb listings on both the French and Dutch sides did in August 2026, measured night by night from their calendars.

August is the island’s low season, in the middle of the hurricane months: on the same listings, hosts ask about 1.3 times their August rate for December stays. Read these as off-season figures.

St. Martin Airbnb performance by area, August 2026

Brixfox calendar data, August 2026 — the first complete month of our night-by-night calendar archive. Performing listings = listings with a full August calendar that booked at least 10% of the month’s nights. Occupancy = median share of August nights booked; nightly rate = median advertised rate for August stays; revenue = the median of each performing listing’s estimated August gross (its own occupancy × its own advertised rate × 31 nights), USD — usually a little below the two median columns multiplied together.

AreaPerforming listingsOccupancyNightly rateEst. Aug revenue
Terres Basses54974%$338$7,028
Orient Bay47965%$257$4,521
Cole Bay28468%$249$4,972
Grand Case20377%$298$5,571
Dawn Beach18365%$341$5,296
Maho14968%$234$4,960
Simpson Bay13968%$292$4,766
Marigot12068%$129$2,521
Philipsburg12061%$172$3,184

Every area with at least 100 performing listings, French and Dutch sides. A night closed on the calendar counts as booked, including one first seen closed on its own date after being open the day before — 16% of August’s booked nights here, against 1–4% in the Mediterranean markets, and a host’s same-day booking cutoff closes a night the same way, so read occupancy as high (counting none of those nights, the market’s median falls from 71% to 61%); calendars closed almost end to end with no detected booking, and listings our data engine flags as likely owner-blocked, are left out.

What the data says

  • Terres Basses leads on depth and revenue: 549 performing listings, 74% of August nights booked at a median $338 — about $7,000 for the median listing’s month, even in the low season.
  • Grand Case booked the most nights (77%) at $298, about $5,600 — second only to Terres Basses on revenue.
  • Dawn Beach asks $341 a night, slightly more than Terres Basses, but books fewer nights (65%), for about $5,300; Maho, Cole Bay and Simpson Bay follow close together at about $4,800–$5,000.
  • Orient Bay, the second-largest pool (479 listings), booked the fewest nights of the beach areas (65%, level with Dawn Beach) — about $4,500 for August.
  • The towns have the least estimated revenue: Marigot ($129 a night, about $2,500) and Philipsburg ($172 at 61%, about $3,200).

Read this as a filter, not a verdict

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.

Seasonality: August is the floor

Hosts ask about the same for October stays as for August (1.00 to 1.01 times across the two sides) and 1.29 to 1.33 times for December, when the winter season begins. Our night-by-night archive began in July 2026, so we have not yet observed the winter months that carry the island’s year. Treat August as a floor, not an average — and underwrite on all twelve months, never on August × 12.

How this is measured

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 on both the French side (Saint-Martin) and the Dutch side (Sint Maarten) 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. The October- and December-versus-August ratios compare the same listings’ advertised rates for those months (the median of each listing’s ratio). Informational, not investment advice.

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