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Sacramento, California Airbnb Market Data 2026

What Sacramento Airbnbs earn in 2026 from BNBCalc market data, by neighborhood and nearby city, plus the 90-day cap on homes you don't live in.

Jeremy Werden

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Jeremy Werden

Sacramento, California

Kurzantwort: Wie viel verdienen Airbnbs in Sacramento im Jahr 2026?

Im Jahr 2026 erzielt eine typische Kurzzeitvermietung mit 1 schlafzimmer in Sacramento etwa 20.044,8 $ Jahresumsatz bei 42 % Auslastung und einem Übernachtungspreis von 125 $. Überdurchschnittliche Unterkünfte derselben Größe erreichen rund 38.350,5 $ pro Jahr. Dies sind Marktbenchmarks und keine Garantie für eine bestimmte Immobilie.

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Studio

Aktive Inserate

68

Unterdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

2688,5 $

Übernachtungspreis

55,7 $

Belegung

20 %

Bruttorendite

76.7%

Typisch

Jahresumsatz

8365,0 $

Übernachtungspreis

104,7 $

Belegung

28 %

Bruttorendite

2.4%

Überdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

26.816,0 $

Übernachtungspreis

139,3 $

Belegung

48 %

Bruttorendite

7.7%

1 Schlafzimmer

Aktive Inserate

408

Unterdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

5394,1 $

Übernachtungspreis

83,9 $

Belegung

22 %

Bruttorendite

1.5%

Typisch

Jahresumsatz

20.044,8 $

Übernachtungspreis

125,2 $

Belegung

42 %

Bruttorendite

5.7%

Überdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

38.350,5 $

Übernachtungspreis

161,7 $

Belegung

56 %

Bruttorendite

10.9%

2 Schlafzimmer

Aktive Inserate

405

Unterdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

9187,3 $

Übernachtungspreis

153,1 $

Belegung

23 %

Bruttorendite

2.1%

Typisch

Jahresumsatz

31.594,8 $

Übernachtungspreis

184,3 $

Belegung

43 %

Bruttorendite

7.2%

Überdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

55.705,6 $

Übernachtungspreis

227,4 $

Belegung

55 %

Bruttorendite

12.6%

3 Schlafzimmer

Aktive Inserate

386

Unterdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

12.145,5 $

Übernachtungspreis

216,1 $

Belegung

20 %

Bruttorendite

2.2%

Typisch

Jahresumsatz

41.792,4 $

Übernachtungspreis

239,1 $

Belegung

43 %

Bruttorendite

7.4%

Überdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

78.455,6 $

Übernachtungspreis

337,2 $

Belegung

52 %

Bruttorendite

13.9%

4+ Schlafzimmer

Aktive Inserate

342

Unterdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

15.847,1 $

Übernachtungspreis

305,5 $

Belegung

18 %

Bruttorendite

2.1%

Typisch

Jahresumsatz

58.527,9 $

Übernachtungspreis

326,9 $

Belegung

42 %

Bruttorendite

7.9%

Überdurchschnittlich

Jahresumsatz

115.107,1 $

Übernachtungspreis

541,4 $

Belegung

45 %

Bruttorendite

15.6%

SchlafzimmerLeistungsgruppeJahresumsatzÜbernachtungspreisBelegungBruttorenditeAktive Inserate
Studio

Unterdurchschnittlich

2688,5 $55,7 $20 %76.7%68

Typisch

8365,0 $104,7 $28 %2.4%

Überdurchschnittlich

26.816,0 $139,3 $48 %7.7%
1 Schlafzimmer

Unterdurchschnittlich

5394,1 $83,9 $22 %1.5%408

Typisch

20.044,8 $125,2 $42 %5.7%

Überdurchschnittlich

38.350,5 $161,7 $56 %10.9%
2 Schlafzimmer

Unterdurchschnittlich

9187,3 $153,1 $23 %2.1%405

Typisch

31.594,8 $184,3 $43 %7.2%

Überdurchschnittlich

55.705,6 $227,4 $55 %12.6%
3 Schlafzimmer

Unterdurchschnittlich

12.145,5 $216,1 $20 %2.2%386

Typisch

41.792,4 $239,1 $43 %7.4%

Überdurchschnittlich

78.455,6 $337,2 $52 %13.9%
4+ Schlafzimmer

Unterdurchschnittlich

15.847,1 $305,5 $18 %2.1%342

Typisch

58.527,9 $326,9 $42 %7.9%

Überdurchschnittlich

115.107,1 $541,4 $45 %15.6%

Niedrige, typische und höhere Leistungsgruppen sind Marktbenchmarks und keine garantierten Ergebnisse. Daten aktualisiert: Sept. 2026.

Marktdaten für Sacramento ansehenDie besten Airbnb-Märkte in California vergleichenDie besten Airbnb-Märkte vergleichen

What does a Sacramento Airbnb actually bring in, and will the city license one at an address you'll never sleep at?

Well, the middle listing across the whole market took $25,835 over the latest twelve months, and inside city limits it took $22,354. The city will also license a home you don't live in, although a counter comes attached, and you'll want to know about it before you sign anything. If you won't live in the house for at least 184 days of the calendar year, the city allows 90 days of paid stays across each one-year permit, and once those 90 are used you can only take guests staying 31 days or longer.

That counter caps everything beneath it, so for a home you won't move into I'd model 90 booked days instead of 365, and I'd do it knowing the city's planning commission has already recommended scrapping that option. I'm writing about the City of Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California, although the market data travels a long way past the city line: two listings in every three that BNBCalc tracks here sit in another city or on unincorporated county land, and every one of those answers to its own rules.

How Much Do Sacramento Airbnbs Earn in 2026?

Those two medians come from the same listing data cut two ways, the whole market and the city alone. Across the whole market the middle listing's $25,835 came on a $235 median nightly rate, while the city's $22,354 came on $195. Both are medians of the entire-home listings BNBCalc counts as active here, meaning homes open to guests for more than a third of the year and booked on at least three in ten of those nights, so a place that barely operates would come in below them.

To reach the market's top quarter, a listing needs $35,264 a year. That's also roughly where the market-wide average lands, because a small group of big earners pulls the average up toward it, so if you're budgeting, start from the median and treat the average as a stretch.

Bedroom count sets where the typical listing lands, but it won't tell you where yours does, since the spread inside any one size runs wider than the steps between sizes. A strong one-bedroom out-earns a weak four-plus-bedroom here, which suggests the street and whoever runs the place count for as much as the layout, and you get to choose both.

Gross yield weighs a year's revenue against the purchase price, and on that measure the sizes line up far more neatly. Each step up the bedroom count, from one to four-plus, lifts the typical listing's yield, while studios sit well below even the one-bedrooms. Bigger pays better in Sacramento, which I wouldn't have guessed for a capital city full of apartments. Inside the city, though, six guests is the most any short-term rental can host at once, so I'd price a big house there on space and privacy rather than on how many people it could sleep.

What size doesn't change is how full you stay. Whether a listing has one bedroom or four and up, the typical one books within a point of the other sizes, so extra bedrooms buy you a higher nightly rate and leave the calendar about where it was.

Who else is bidding for those nights? A large share of Sacramento's listings sit with professional hosts, so you'll often be pricing against someone with more than one place to fill, and the Sacramento property management roundup walks through what it costs to hand your turnovers to one of them.

Is the Sacramento Airbnb Market Oversaturated?

No, at least not on the supply side, since fewer listings were chasing guests this year than over the same months of 2025. The demand side is the half this data can't settle, and I'll come to that.

MetricChange, January to August 2026 against the same months of 2025
Average nightly rate+16%
Active supply−11%
Booking lead timeUp about 14%
Purchase price (12 months to August 2026)Roughly flat

BNBCalc data across all listings BNBCalc tracks in this market. Sacramento's stored history changes definition at the start of 2025, so the comparison runs January through August 2026 against January through August 2025 rather than a full twelve months, and every change is rounded. Any measure this year's data can't settle a direction for is left out instead of published, which is why there's no occupancy row. Purchase price tracks home prices over the twelve months to August 2026 and comes from a separate series.

Active supply fell about 11% over those eight months, so the crowd of listings thinned out instead of piling in. Nightly rates climbed about 16% over the same stretch, and that backs up the supply row, since hosts fighting over too few guests tend to cut their prices rather than push them up.

I'd stop short of calling it a boom, though, because the year-over-year direction on occupancy is the one thing this release can't settle. Work that change out two defensible ways and it comes back on opposite sides of zero, so I've left it out rather than pick whichever version flatters the market. Each month's own occupancy is sound enough to read by itself, which is how I use it for the season, and it's only the change from one year to the next that won't hold still. If you want to know whether demand is keeping pace with the homes that remain, track how often listings like yours are getting booked, and check again every few months instead of once.

Something did move cleanly, and it's useful. Guests committed earlier this year, with the average booking window stretching about 14%, and over the latest twelve months it sat a little beyond four weeks. That's a short runway, so when you set a price for a date two months out, most of the guests who'll stay that night probably haven't started looking yet, and you'll want to revisit it about four weeks ahead, which is when the average guest books.

When Is Sacramento's Peak Airbnb Season?

Booking windows say when guests commit, whereas the month-by-month figures say when they turn up, and on rate the answer is June and July. July asked the top average nightly rate of the year, $268, and June the next-highest, $255, with both months filling about 45% of their nights.

MonthOccupancyAvg nightly rate
Sep 202535%$223
Oct 202539%$253
Nov 202534%$232
Dec 202534%$244
Jan 202629%$217
Feb 202630%$212
Mar 202636%$216
Apr 202641%$226
May 202644%$246
Jun 202645%$255
Jul 202645%$268
Aug 202639%$251

BNBCalc market data across all listings in the market, one row per month for September 2025 through August 2026. Occupancy and nightly rate are averaged independently of each other, so read each column on its own. Months from May 2026 onward come from a different data load than the months before them, so a small occupancy gap across that line, April against May for instance, isn't worth reading into; the rate column carries no such caveat.

Four of the year's five highest rates fall between May and August. At the other end, the floor of the year splits in two: January fills the fewest of its nights at 29%, yet February asks the least at $212. August is the odd one, because its rate only eases to $251 while occupancy falls to 39% from July's 45%, which reads to me like hosts holding prices through a month the guests have started leaving.

Give October a second look before writing off the shoulder. It asks $253 a night, a figure only June and July beat, so discounting the autumn out of habit hands back the third-best rate of the year.

Now, if that 90-day counter applies to you, which days you sell becomes the whole game. Ninety days scattered across the calendar is a different business from 90 packed into the summer, where most of the year's best rates sit. Winter, though, is where that logic bites hardest, since from November through March not one month reaches 40% occupancy and January, the worst of them, fills just 29% of its nights.

Within the week there's a second pattern, and Sacramento's version of it is sharp. Across BNBCalc's latest all-listing figures, Saturdays sit 29% above a typical day for occupancy with Fridays 25% above, while Mondays come in 20% under and Tuesdays 18% under. What sets this market apart is that rates swing nearly as hard as the calendar does, running 21% over average on a Saturday and 20% on a Friday, so a weekend pays you twice. Thursday is where I'd look hardest, since it fills like an ordinary night at 2% above the norm and yet gets priced like a slow one at 4% below, and you can close that gap with nothing but a change to your pricing rules.

Where Should You Buy an Airbnb in Sacramento?

Which government you'd answer to comes ahead of any question about which street, because this market's map is crowded with them.

Only about 32% of this market's listings fall within the City of Sacramento. Another 30% sit elsewhere in Sacramento County, in cities such as Elk Grove and Folsom or on the unincorporated land around them, while Placer County takes close to one listing in five, Yolo about one in nine and El Dorado about one in thirteen, and two more counties split the last handful. Homes beyond the city post a higher median than homes within it, although that gap owes plenty to house size, which I'll come back to. The first table below follows the city's own neighborhood map and the second the Census places around it, so treat them as two separate readings rather than one ranking.

Inside the City of Sacramento

The city divides itself into 129 official neighborhoods, so I dropped each measurable listing inside whichever polygon holds it, then kept the neighborhoods with enough behind them to measure. That left these 17, ranked by median annual revenue.

RankNeighborhoodMedian annual revenueMedian nightly rateMedian occupancy75th-percentile revenue
1Valley Hi / North Laguna$30,594$25132%$36,802
2Creekside$30,309$26830%$34,661
3Gateway West$30,156$26632%$32,764
4South Natomas$29,796$24833%$35,679
5Southside Park$24,128$18536%$26,520
6Land Park$24,054$19228%$27,330
7Boulevard Park$23,990$20431%$28,853
8East Sacramento$23,392$20437%$33,047
9North Oak Park$23,188$18535%$26,067
10Mansion Flats$21,756$22630%$28,330
11Elmhurst$21,383$23530%$24,273
12Newton Booth$19,842$19328%$22,703
13New Era Park$19,407$16634%$23,623
14Colonial Heights$18,259$15834%$19,454
15Curtis Park$18,156$18431%$22,692
16Midtown / Winn Park / Capital Avenue$17,931$16333%$24,777
17Central Oak Park$17,481$15929%$19,352

BNBCalc 2026 listing data for active entire-home listings inside the City of Sacramento's official neighborhood boundaries, trailing twelve months. Revenue, rate and occupancy are medians, and the last column is the 75th percentile, where a neighborhood's strongest quarter of listings begins. Each column is worked out separately, so they don't multiply together. Neighborhoods with too little data to measure reliably are left out, and even among these 17, only East Sacramento and Midtown / Winn Park / Capital Avenue rest on deep samples; the other fifteen rows are thin enough to move between refreshes.

One warning before you lean on that occupancy column: don't hold it up against the month-by-month figures. Each entry there is the middle listing's occupancy within that neighborhood, not an average taken across the market, so it's good for comparing one neighborhood with another and not for much else.

I also wouldn't buy off the top four rows, because Valley Hi, Creekside, Gateway West and South Natomas are all among the thin ones. Three of them lean on bigger houses, with a typical listing of three or four bedrooms, so what their medians mostly report is what a big house earns out there. Creekside is the exception, since its typical listing has two bedrooms, but it's also as thin as a row can get and still make the table, and I wouldn't stake a purchase on a median that a couple of new listings could move.

The rows worth your time are the two deep ones, and East Sacramento is the deeper of the pair. It books the largest share of its nights anywhere in the ranking, 37%, which counts for most if the house will be your primary residence and the calendar is uncapped, whereas under the 90-day counter the rate you get on the days you do sell matters more. Its strongest quarter of listings also reaches $33,047 against a $23,392 median, a wide gap between an ordinary operator there and a good one. Midtown holds the other deep sample and sits second from the bottom on median revenue at $17,931, on a $163 median rate that only two rows undercut, with a one-bedroom as its typical listing and a middling 33% occupancy, so what holds it back is unit size and rate rather than demand. Land Park, one of the thin rows, runs the reverse trade: a $192 median rate while only 28% of its nights fill, level with Newton Booth for the softest occupancy of the 17.

None of those columns can tell you how these places feel, whether you're living in one or sending guests there, and the best Sacramento neighborhoods for Airbnb covers that side.

Sacramento Against Its Neighbors

So are the outlying cities better bets? This second ranking covers every place in the market with a deep enough sample, mapped by Census boundary, and the city itself is one of its rows.

RankCity or areaMedian annual revenueMedian nightly rateMedian occupancy75th-percentile revenue
1Elk Grove$33,561$30531%$40,857
2Roseville$32,322$28232%$42,754
3Folsom$30,970$31330%$41,267
4Rancho Cordova$30,582$25330%$33,909
5West Sacramento$29,004$22135%$38,335
6Citrus Heights$28,829$25433%$38,488
7Carmichael$27,142$22133%$34,386
8Davis$25,999$27531%$40,573
9Auburn$24,848$23430%$28,891
10Woodland$22,979$19432%$32,835
11Sacramento$22,354$19533%$28,630
12Arden-Arcade$21,335$19232%$27,683

BNBCalc 2026 listing data for active entire-home listings inside US Census place boundaries, trailing twelve months, for the places with the deepest listing samples. Columns are medians apart from the 75th percentile, each worked out separately. Places with thinner samples are left out, since a ranking built on a handful of listings moves around between refreshes. Carmichael and Arden-Arcade are Census designated places in unincorporated Sacramento County rather than incorporated cities.

Sacramento itself lands 11th of 12 there, which looks damning until you check the houses. A typical listing runs to four bedrooms in Elk Grove, three in Roseville, Folsom, Rancho Cordova and Citrus Heights, and two in the city, so a fair slice of that gap is square footage. Address still counts, though, and Davis shows it: a two-bedroom is typical there too, yet Davis clears $25,999, about $3,600 more than the city, and its strongest quarter of listings starts at $40,573, the highest of any place where a two-bedroom is typical.

The legal difference is what I'd weigh harder, because each place on this list answers to its own short-term rental rules, or to none at all, and Sacramento's stop at the city line. Take unincorporated Sacramento County, where Carmichael and Arden-Arcade sit. It won't permit a short-term rental at all unless the owner or a long-term renter lives on site at least six months a year, so the 90-day route that exists inside the city doesn't exist a mile outside it. Check the specific jurisdiction before you treat any of these rows as a shortcut, and BNBCalc's guide to Sacramento County short-term rental rules is the first thing I'd open for anywhere unincorporated.

Which Amenities Make the Most Money in Sacramento?

Once a jurisdiction and a house are settled, the hot tub is the amenity that does most for revenue here, at least among the ones BNBCalc's model tracks.

On BNBCalc's latest amenity model a hot tub is worth about 15% more revenue on a Sacramento listing, and it's the only lift the public market page shows unlocked. Broken out by size, the lift runs about 13% on a one-bedroom, 17% on a two-bedroom, 18% on a three-bedroom and 21% on a four-plus-bedroom. The pooled 15% comes from its own model run across every listing rather than from averaging those four, so it doesn't have to match their average. What the breakdown does show is that the lift grows with the house, so if a bigger home already appeals to you for the yield, the hot-tub argument gets stronger at the same time, and I'd cost that install against what a four-bedroom earns rather than against a market average.

Below the hot tub, seven more carry enough signal to track, and the market page lists them strongest first: a pool, lake access, an EV charger, a sauna, a barbecue, bicycles, and letting guests bring pets. BNBCalc Markets holds the Sacramento figure for each of them, and the numbers stay there. The model skips a few everyday basics deliberately, since guests take them for granted rather than treating them as something an investor chooses.

The cleaning fee is the other line worth setting on purpose. About half of the active listings here charge one, 49.5% as of September 2026, at roughly $133 a booking, which comes to about $1,969 a year per listing when you average in the ones that charge nothing. Treat it as a way to cover the turnover rather than as margin, and set it to what your cleaner costs, since it lands on the guest's total right alongside your nightly rate.

Is Airbnb Legal in Sacramento?

Yes, and the city will issue a permit whether or not you live in the house, which is exactly why that 90-day counter carries so much weight.

Under City Code chapter 5.114, every stay of 30 days or less needs a short-term rental permit, and as of September 2026 that permit sits with the dwelling unit rather than with you. If you live in the unit for at least 184 days of the calendar year, there's no annual limit at all, because that makes it your primary residence. If you don't, section 5.114.210 caps you at an aggregate of 90 days of paid lodging across the permit term. Past 90, the city's own guidance says you may only take stays of 31 days or longer until the following year.

Watch the wording on that 90, because the city hasn't settled it. The code counts the 90 days across the permit term, while the city's short-term rental page and its application form both describe a calendar year, and your permit's clock starts on its issue date, not on New Year's Day. Check your issue date before you plan a summer around it, because getting that wrong costs you the best-paying days of the year. The cap is also counted in days of paid lodging, so if a checkout day could tip you over, ask the city's Revenue Division how it counts before you take the booking.

The form also notes that going beyond 90 days calls for a conditional use permit, and that matches the zoning code. There, a short-term rental counts as a permitted use of a dwelling unit needing no conditional use permit from the zoning administrator, but a non-primary rental pushed past 90 days stops fitting that definition. Separately, a short-term rental inside a multi-unit dwelling building needs a conditional use permit across a specific list of zones.

The entry costs are small next to what a rental here earns, since a new permit runs $260, a renewal $250, and filing that renewal late adds a $50 assessment fee. On top of that you'll need an active business operations tax account. Sacramento doesn't issue a general business license at all, so chapter 3.08 makes every business hold a business operations tax certificate instead, and for a short-term rental that runs $50 a year assessed as a hotel.

Then come the operating rules, several of which catch people out. Six lodgers is the ceiling at any one time, counted per lot rather than per unit wherever your own home isn't on that lot, so don't market a five-bedroom on its sleeping capacity. Every advertisement you run has to carry the permit number, and a copy of the permit goes up in each room a guest is meant to sleep in. You'll keep a register too, listing every date you provided paid lodging, how many people stayed and what they paid, and you'll hold it in print for three years. If the place isn't your primary residence, you send the city an updated copy each January, April, July and October without waiting to be asked. Make sure that register starts on your first paid night rather than on the day somebody asks to see it. Non-primary permits carry one further condition the city has to impose, naming a property manager who lives within 30 miles and will answer complaints quickly.

Expect your neighbors to find out. On issuing the permit the city writes to every property owner within 200 feet, giving them the address and your contact details, and the full list of active permits sits on the city's open data portal, which held 526 of them when I checked on September 18, 2026.

That openness is most of the enforcement story. The city's page carries a link for reporting a rental that operates without a permit, so one irritated neighbor can pick out an unpermitted listing easily, and complaints are exactly what staff leaned on when they built the case for tightening the rules. Penalties are steep enough to matter, since breaching chapter 5.114 brings civil penalties of not less than $250 and not more than $25,000 for each day the violation continues, and the city attorney can pursue the rental as a public nuisance besides. A quieter lever sits underneath all that: no hosting platform may accept a fee for a booking unless the host holds a valid city permit, which turns a listing without a permit number into a dead end rather than a gamble.

Those lodging charges ride on a guest's bill and are not taken out of your nightly rate, even though getting them to the city falls to you. Three of them stack on a Sacramento stay of 30 days or less: a 12% transient occupancy tax, a 1% Sacramento Tourism Infrastructure District assessment on gross room rent, and a Sacramento Tourism Marketing District assessment running from 1.33% to 4.00% according to which of four benefit zones the address falls in. The district's committee raised those marketing rates from August 1, 2026, and added together, a guest pays somewhere between about 14.3% and 17% extra. Airbnb collects and remits all three, yet its own Sacramento tax page still showed the old 1.15% to 3.45% marketing district band when I read it on September 18, 2026, so look at your payout detail and chase the difference if the higher rate never showed up. Direct bookings are yours to handle from end to end, and the city's letter is explicit that the marketing district assessment remains the lodging business's own obligation even when a guest pays it, so if you take any, California's short-term rental tax rules explain how the state filings work around all of this.

One last thing, and it's why I wouldn't buy a non-primary rental here on the strength of those 90 days alone: the city has an ordinance in the works that, as drafted, would require every permitted short-term rental to sit at the owner's primary residence, deleting the non-primary option outright. It's already been through a committee and a commission, because the city's Law and Legislation Committee gave staff direction on drafting it in June 2025, and on March 12, 2026 the Planning and Design Commission voted 10 to 1 to recommend that the City Council adopt it, according to the commission's certified minutes. The council itself hasn't acted yet, though. When I checked the city's legislative record on September 18, 2026, there was no council file for the ordinance and nothing had been codified, so the 90 days still stand. Even so, staff told the commission that non-primary permit locations drew roughly two thirds of all short-term rental complaints in 2025, and with the committee and the commission already behind it, my guess is some version of it passes. Forms, tax accounts, the order to work in and who to call: all of it lives in the Sacramento short-term rental regulation guide.

Where Do These Sacramento Airbnb Numbers Come From?

Paperwork belongs to that guide. The figures are a separate job, and every one I've quoted is pulled from BNBCalc Markets, BNBCalc's market research arm, the thing you'd open to weigh a market up before chasing one house inside it. Where a US market has the data behind it, Markets also ranks its ZIP codes on gross yield, which shows you the postal areas turning the local price of a home into the most annual revenue. Given that a Sacramento address and one a few blocks past the city line answer to entirely different rulebooks, I'd read that ranking with a jurisdiction map open alongside it.

How Do You Estimate Airbnb Revenue for a Sacramento Property?

Everything I've quoted so far squeezes a whole market into a handful of numbers. So how does that become a figure for the single address on your desk?

The Sacramento market page is the place to begin, since revenue, occupancy and seasonality move there as the data moves, and with the region still open, California's markets ranked by gross yield places Sacramento against everywhere else in the state. With an actual house on the table, take what you'd pay for it, the terms of your loan and what running it costs, put all that through BNBCalc, and see what returns.

Then test that answer against four Sacramento facts before you trust it. Residency matters most, because a home you won't move into gets 90 days in the model, never 365, and none at all if the council adopts the commission's recommendation. Winter comes next, since no month from November through March reaches 40% occupancy. Tax is the third, so price with the 14.3% to 17% in mind, since it's added to your rate and your cleaning fee on the guest's side and moves the number they're really deciding on. And don't assume rates keep climbing, since they gained about 16% in eight months and I wouldn't budget on a repeat.

Wherever a city counts your days rather than banning them outright, the figure that matters isn't what a market earns across a year. It's what you can earn inside the window you're allowed, which is a different question, and one an average never answers for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the Average Airbnb Income in Sacramento?

Inside city limits, the median listing took $22,354 over the latest twelve months, at a $195 median nightly rate and 33% median occupancy, and across the wider market the median was $25,835. Both are medians of active entire-home listings in BNBCalc market data, used instead of averages because a few big earners pull the average up. A listing needed $35,264 to reach the market's top quarter, and identically sized homes land a long way apart, with a strong one-bedroom beating a weak four-plus-bedroom.

Is Airbnb Still Profitable in Sacramento in 2026?

It can be, but the answer turns on whether you'll live in the house. A primary residence carries no annual limit, while anything else is held to 90 days of paid lodging per permit term, an option the city's Planning and Design Commission has recommended removing. Across the market, active supply dropped about 11% from January through August 2026 set against the same months of 2025, while nightly rates gained about 16%. Whether one specific home turns a profit still rests on what you paid and what it costs to run.

What Is the Best Month for Airbnb in Sacramento?

July, on rate: it asked the year's highest average nightly rate, $268, and filled about 45% of its nights, level with June. Four of the year's five highest rates fell between May and August, with October third at $253. January filled the fewest of its nights at 29%, and February asked the least at $212. Fridays and Saturdays outperform the rest of the week on occupancy and on rate alike.

Do You Need a Permit to Run an Airbnb in Sacramento?

Yes. Stays of 30 days or less all require a short-term rental permit from the city's Revenue Division under City Code chapter 5.114, at $260 for a new permit and $250 to renew, with a $50 assessment where the renewal arrives late. Permits expire twelve months after issue. An active business operations tax account is required too, which for a short-term rental costs $50 a year assessed as a hotel.

Can You Buy an Investment Property in Sacramento and Run It as an Airbnb?

Yes, within a limit, and possibly not for long. Where the home isn't your primary residence, City Code section 5.114.210 allows an aggregate of 90 days of paid lodging across the permit term, after which only stays of 31 days or longer are permitted until the following year. The city must also require you to name a property manager living within 30 miles. On March 12, 2026, the Planning and Design Commission voted 10 to 1 to recommend that the City Council adopt an ordinance removing the non-primary option, and as of September 18, 2026 the council hadn't adopted it.

Which Sacramento Neighborhood Is Best for Short-Term Rentals?

It depends on the home. Valley Hi / North Laguna, Creekside, Gateway West and South Natomas post the highest medians, from $29,796 to $30,594, but all four rest on thin samples, and three of them are weighted to three and four-bedroom houses. Only East Sacramento and Midtown / Winn Park / Capital Avenue have deep samples, and East Sacramento books the largest share of its nights of any neighborhood, 37%, with its strongest quarter of listings reaching $33,047. BNBCalc's 2026 listing data supplies every figure as a median, with each listing assigned to its official city neighborhood polygon.

How Much Is the Airbnb Tax in Sacramento?

A guest on a Sacramento short-term rental of 30 days or less pays roughly 14.3% to 17% on top of the booking: a 12% transient occupancy tax, a 1% Sacramento Tourism Infrastructure District assessment, and a Sacramento Tourism Marketing District assessment of 1.33% to 4.00% according to the benefit zone, at rates that rose on August 1, 2026. Airbnb collects and remits all three. A separate business operations tax of $50 a year applies to the host.

How Many Airbnbs Are There in Sacramento?

The city's own register is the firmest count: it listed 526 active short-term rental permits on its open data portal on September 18, 2026, each covering one dwelling unit, and it publishes that list monthly. BNBCalc's Sacramento market is considerably larger than the city, since only about 32% of the listings it tracks here fall within city limits. Most of the rest sit elsewhere in Sacramento County, in cities such as Elk Grove and Folsom or on unincorporated land, or in Placer, Yolo and El Dorado counties. Across that whole market, active supply dropped about 11% from January through August 2026 set against the same months of 2025.

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