Days of the week

Your Mondays, your Fridays: what each day did over the past year. It groups the past nights of your last year by day of the week: which day fills most and least, when guests arrive and leave and, if you ask, which earns most.

Where: Your Airbnb multicalendar, in the year view: the “Days of the week” button in the year row.
What it reads: Your own calendar, night by night, for the past year, and your reservations list, to know when your listing started taking bookings. Each stay’s breakdown, only if you ask.
What it costs: Requests to Airbnb at a gentle pace: your reservations list and one per month of calendar the first time, then only the running month; one per missing stay if you read the amounts. No AI.
What it changes on Airbnb: Nothing. It only reads.

The problem

Which nights of the week fill up on their own, and which stay empty? Your calendar shows it square by square. To know, you would have to count every Monday and every Friday of the year and set aside the blocked ones. Even then you would not know what each one brought in: Airbnb gives the amount of each stay, not of each night.

Where to find it

Open your multicalendar in the year view. In the year row, “Days of the week” sits right after “Year in numbers” and before “Signals”.

The year row of the multicalendar: the year, the booking window switch and the extension’s buttons, with “Days of the week” between “Year in numbers” and “Signals” — “Days of the week” lives in the year row, right after “Year in numbers”.

It is not the same as the button beside it. Year in numbers counts the calendar year month by month, including the months to come. This one looks at the last twelve months by day of the week, and only at nights that have already passed. The panel opens over the page without moving your calendar, and closes with Escape, the × or a click outside it.

It needs you signed in to the extension, but it sends nothing to an AI. Account and settings shows how to sign in.

What it reads, and which year

When you open it, it reads your Airbnb calendar month by month and night by night: which nights were booked, which were open and which were blocked. First it checks when your listing started taking bookings, then the last year. The first time takes a little while. Closed months no longer change, so they are saved in this browser, and next time only the running month is read again.

Below the title and its subtitle, a line says exactly what was counted: weeks, stays, and from which day to which day. Only past nights, up to yesterday and at most twelve months: no forecasts. If your listing is less than a year old, the period starts on the day of its first booking, and the panel says so: the calendar shows the days before as open, and whether they could already be booked is not known.

The panel header: “Performance by day of the week”, a line with the weeks, the stays and the dates counted, and “Read again” next to when it was read — One line says exactly what was counted: weeks, stays and dates.

“Read again” re-reads the running month and whatever could not be read; closed months come from what was saved. If the new reading comes out worse, the previous one stays and the panel says why.

Four cards, each with its sample

First, four cards: “Highest occupancy observed”, “Highest revenue per night offered”, “Highest average price per night sold” and “Lowest occupancy observed”. Each names a day, a figure and, below it, where the figure comes from.

Four cards: the highest and the lowest occupancy observed, each with its day, its percentage and its sample; the two money cards in the middle say “Amounts not read yet”, and one has a gold button to read them — Each figure comes with its sample. The money waits until you ask for it.

Every figure in the panel has its sample next to it, because a hundred percent out of two Fridays does not weigh the same as ninety percent out of fifty. A tie is shown as a tie. The two money cards say “Amounts not read yet” until you read them.

The seven days, compared

Below, the seven days from Monday to Sunday, each with its occupancy, a bar and its sample. Blocked nights are counted apart, next to the sample: a blocked night counts neither as offered nor as a lost sale. The money columns say how many sold nights are still without an amount, and on the right, how many check-ins and check-outs fell on each day.

The seven days from Monday to Sunday, each with its occupancy, a bar, its sample and any blocked nights, the money columns still without amounts, and the check-ins and check-outs of each day — Blocked nights are counted apart, next to the sample.

Tap a day and it reads it to you

When the panel opens, a day is already selected: the one with the highest revenue per night offered if there are amounts, otherwise the one with the highest occupancy. Tap another row and “Reading of the selected day” tells it in sentences.

The “Reading of the selected day” box for one day: how many were booked out of those offered, that the amounts are still missing, how many were blocked, its check-ins and check-outs, and the observed-average warning — The same numbers as the row, said in sentences, with the same warning every time.

Below it, always the same warning: it is an observed average of what happened under your prices, your rules and your availability. It is not the effect of being a Monday, and it does not say how much to raise or lower your price.

Sorting without making up an order

“Sort by” orders the table by occupancy, either money figure, check-ins or check-outs, and the note above it names the day that comes first. If you sort by money before reading the amounts, it does not make up an order: it says the amounts are missing and keeps the weekly order.

The table with “Revenue per night offered” chosen in “Sort by” and no amounts yet: the note says they are missing and that the weekly order is kept, and Monday stays first — Without amounts, sorting by money does not make up an order.

Check-ins and check-outs are not occupancy

Further down, “The rhythm of check-ins and check-outs” names the day with the most check-ins and the day with the most check-outs, each with its count and its share.

“The rhythm of check-ins and check-outs”: the day with the most check-ins and the day with the most check-outs, each with its count and share, and the Friday-to-Sunday example — Check-ins and check-outs are activity, not occupancy, and the block says so.

But activity is not occupancy. A Friday-to-Sunday stay fills Friday and Saturday, and its check-out counts on Sunday. Many check-outs on a Sunday do not mean that Sunday sells well.

The money, only if you ask for it

The money is not read when the panel opens, because it has a cost: Airbnb only gives each stay’s breakdown, one request per stay. The gold button in the revenue card says how many stays are missing and what that involves. Stays already saved by the Golden window or a month’s receipt in Month insight are not requested again.

Once read, the two money cards name the day that earns most, and they are two different figures on purpose. The average price per night sold looks only at nights that sold. The revenue per night offered spreads what was earned across every night offered, sold or not: it combines price and occupancy in one figure. The two can name different days.

The four cards after reading the amounts: the two money cards now name a day each, with the figure blurred, the sample and “estimated*” — Two money figures on purpose: one counts only sold nights, the other every night offered. Figures blurred: they are the host’s own.

Every money figure carries an asterisk: it is an estimate. It is the stay with its discounts and extras, before Airbnb’s fee and the co-host payout, without cleaning or taxes, spread evenly across the nights of each stay. If a stay will not give its breakdown, the panel says so, and the money cards name no day rather than show a figure that falls short.

How it counts, written in the panel

“How nights are counted and days compared” opens the method. Each night counts on its own day, not on the day the booking was made. Occupancy is booked nights divided by nights offered, with blocked nights apart. Nothing is filled in: what could not be read does not count, and the panel says so.

“How nights are counted and days compared” opened: eight steps on how each night counts, what occupancy and revenue per night offered are, and the limits, followed by the count of blocked nights — The method and its limits, written in the panel itself.

Why it works

It counts from your own calendar, night by night, and puts each figure next to its sample. It keeps blocked nights apart from unsold ones and activity apart from occupancy, and writes down how every number was made.

Its limits

Only Airbnb bookings count. A night closed by another channel does not show as booked.
A cancelled stay leaves its nights as your calendar shows them today.
Single nights your minimum stay does not let you sell count as offered.
It is what happened, not why. Isolating the effect of being a Friday would need controlling for season and events.
The money is an estimate, spread evenly across the nights of each stay.
It looks only at your listing’s past. The market is in Market pulse.