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Hosting on popular dates

Want to make sure your place is booked when there's high demand? Black dots on your calendar indicate popular dates—like public holidays or school breaks. Having popular dates available on your calendar can help you increase your bookings.

How popular dates are determined

Popular dates are calculated based on real-time searches for stays, plus the number of available listings, so they can change frequently. Our tools predict in-demand dates up to 10 weeks in advance, becoming more accurate as the date approaches.

Dates are considered to be popular if:

  • More travelers than usual are searching for stays on those dates, compared to the yearly average
  • The occupancy rate is higher than the yearly average—that means fewer listings than usual are available to book

Hosting guests during public holidays

If you want to host guests over a holiday (like New Year's Day), you can access holidays directly in your calendar via a "single listing" view. Holidays are displayed with a dot on the calendar, and the specific date will be shown when you edit your nightly price in your calendar.

If you don’t want to host during high-demand days, you can block out nights for the holidays. It’ll be easy to notice which days are holidays because all public holidays for the country where your listing is based will be highlighted directly in your calendar.

How to open nights on your calendar 

Open nights for booking on desktop

  1. Click Calendar and select the listing calendar you want to change
  2. Select a night or multiple nights
  3. Click Open nights

      If a date was previously blocked due to your settings (for example, if it was automatically blocked by your advance notice setting), making that date available won’t change your overall Availability settings. Learn more about editing your reservation preferences.

      Airbnb can block your calendar if you haven’t provided all the information required for your account.

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