Cape Cod: Wednesday has the lowest Booked Occupancy (Nov 2–8, 2026)

Cape Cod short-term rentals have their lowest Booked Occupancy on Wednesday, when the Provincetown Food & Wine Festival opens, during Nov 2–8, 2026.

Updated November 2, 2026

The Provincetown Food & Wine Festival opens Wednesday, Nov 4, but Cape Cod, Massachusetts, does not show its strongest citywide Booked Occupancy that night. For operators considering which festival dates need attention, the opening date is a more revealing starting point than treating the whole run as a single rental period.

Wednesday has the lowest citywide Booked Occupancy in Cape Cod for stays November 2, 2026–November 8, 2026, even as the Provincetown Food & Wine Festival begins. Wheelhouse data as of October 28, 2026 shows Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 6.6% Booked Occupancy, compared with 9.2% on Friday, November 6, 2026.

Wheelhouse data shows that the festival’s opening date has the week’s lowest citywide Booked Occupancy, while Friday and Saturday share the highest.

The festival opens before the week’s strongest nights

The Provincetown Chamber of Commerce lists the Provincetown Food & Wine Festival for November 4, 2026–November 8, 2026, within the analyzed stay window of November 2, 2026–November 8, 2026. Wednesday’s opening falls on the lowest Booked Occupancy reading, while Friday, Nov 6, and Saturday, Nov 7, both stand at 9.2%.

That contrast makes the opening date worth separating from the weekend. Friday has more time remaining until arrival than Wednesday, so its higher Booked Occupancy is not simply a comparison with a nearer stay date. The calendar provides local context, but these are citywide Cape Cod readings rather than a Provincetown-specific measure. Wednesday and Friday are also different weekdays; the weekday itself could explain the difference.

Cape CodData as of Oct 28, 2026

Cape Cod · citywide context

Nights already reserved at the snapshot date, not final occupancy.

November 3, 2026

Nov 3, 2026 – Nov 3, 2026 · Snapshot Oct 28, 2026

Booked occupancy
6.7%
Asking rate (USD)
$626

Wheelhouse citywide data. Booked Occupancy is the share of nights already reserved for each stay date; Asking Rates are advertised nightly prices, fees included. Compare with rentals like yours before acting on it.

Source: About Wheelhouse Market Reports

Friday and Saturday match on Booked Occupancy, not Asking Rate

The weekend adds another distinction: Friday’s Asking Rate is $641, versus $630 on Saturday, despite matching Booked Occupancy. The festival spans both dates, yet the market does not attach the same Asking Rate to them. A festival-wide pricing assumption would miss that contrast as well as Wednesday’s lower Booked Occupancy.

Use Wheelhouse Performance Analytics to compare your bookings for Wednesday, Nov 4, with past Wednesdays checked the same number of days before arrival and with the same nights open for booking. If your own Wednesday is below that matched history, keep attention on the festival opener; if it matches or exceeds that history, the citywide low alone should not make Wednesday your priority.

Cape Cod · Lead time

Last year’s booking window: November 2025 stays

Listings in rangeCumulative listings
Share in rangeCumulative share0.0%0%4.5%25%9.0%50%13.5%75%18.0%100%0–525–3050–5575–80100–105125–130150–155175–180200–205225–230250–255275–280300–305325–330350–355Average lead time per listing (days)

Select a bar to inspect it. Use arrow keys to move between ranges. Scroll horizontally on smaller screens.

0–5 days
In range 17.9%Cumulative 17.9%
17.9% of listings averaged more than 0 days and up to 5 days of lead time;17.9% averaged at most 5 days.

As of Oct 28, 2026

Methodology and source

Nov 2025 stays · Retrieved Nov 2, 2026

Wheelhouse Market Report lead-time distribution for the same stay month a year earlier, after all of its stays were complete. Each listing contributes its average booking lead time: a bar is the share of listings whose average falls in that day range, and the line is the share at or below it. It describes listings, not individual reservations, and is last year’s pattern rather than this year’s bookings or a forecast.

Source: Wheelhouse market data

Each listing contributes its average booking lead time. This is a distribution of listing averages, not individual reservations. Contributing listing count is not supplied.

Ranges exclude the lower bound and include the upper bound. Negative API days are interpreted as days before arrival for this preview. Cumulative shares complement the original percentiles in reverse order. Rounded bar shares may not sum to exactly 100%.

How Wheelhouse measures this

Wheelhouse Market Reports track bookings and advertised prices across short-term rental listings in Cape Cod. This article uses Wheelhouse data as of October 28, 2026.

Booked Occupancy is the share of nights already reserved for each stay date as of October 28, 2026. Asking Rate is the nightly price listings advertise for each date, fees included.

The lead-time chart shows last year’s booking window for the same month: how far ahead listings were booked on average.

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