A Batumi short-let books 35.5% of its open nights, and August carries the year

For the twelve months from October 2025 to September 2026, AirROI puts Batumi's average daily rate at 153 lari per booked night, occupancy at 35.5% of nights the host made available, average annual revenue at 10,108 lari per active listing, and the number of active listings at 3,813. Revenue per listing was up 10.3% on the year before. Against the national picture, Batumi's nightly rate is about 10% below the Georgian average of 170 lari and its annual revenue about 26% below the Georgian average of 13,649 lari. The coast charges less per night and fills fewer nights than the country as a whole.

August is the peak month, with revenue about 2.6 times January's and occupancy peaking near 49%. January is the trough, at roughly 1,200 lari of average monthly revenue, with February within 1% of it. Put those two together and the shape of the year becomes the real investment question: a flat that earns 10,108 lari across the year is earning the great majority of it in a short summer window, while the mortgage, the service charge, the utilities and the management fee arrive in twelve equal instalments. Anyone modelling a Batumi short-let on an annual average divided by twelve is modelling a year that does not exist.

Occupancy of 35.5% across nearly four thousand listings is a market where supply comfortably exceeds demand outside the peak. That has a direct consequence for pricing power: a host who tries to hold a summer rate through October is competing with thousands of others who will discount first. It also means the marginal new unit entering the market is more likely to split existing demand than to find new demand. If you are buying specifically to short-let, the question to ask a developer is not what the building will yield but how many units in it will be doing the same thing as yours.

These are modelled estimates built from platform listing data, not audited accounts, and the same provider's broader market page shows different figures for a different trailing window — a sign of how much the output moves with the period and method chosen. Use them to set expectations and to compare one city against another on consistent methodology; do not use them as the revenue line in a purchase decision. The figure that belongs in that line comes from the actual booking history of the actual unit, asked for in writing, for at least two full calendar years.