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Court occupancy rate calculator
Occupancy rate is the share of the court-hours you could have sold that you actually sold. It's the first number most club owners look at — and the one most often calculated inconsistently, because opening hours, courts and cancellations get counted differently from month to month.
Occupancy rate
65%
Available court-hours
1,800
Empty court-hours
630
Value of empty hours
15,120
Booked hours above capacity are capped at the available hours.
Formula
Occupancy rate = booked court-hours ÷ (courts × opening hours per day × days)How to use it
Count available court-hours honestly
Multiply courts by the hours you are actually open and the days in the period. If a court was closed for maintenance, leave those hours out — otherwise occupancy looks worse than it was.
Count booked hours, not bookings
A 90-minute padel match is 1.5 court-hours. Count hours, and exclude canceled bookings so occupancy reflects courts that were genuinely in use.
Look at the empty hours, not just the percentage
A 70% occupancy rate still means 30% of court time earned nothing. Add your average price per court-hour to see what those empty hours are worth — that's the size of the off-peak opportunity.
Worked example
A club with 4 courts open 15 hours a day for 30 days has 1,800 available court-hours. If 1,170 hours were booked, occupancy is 65% and 630 court-hours sat empty. At 24 per hour, those empty hours represent 15,120 in unsold capacity.
Frequently asked questions
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