Columbus, Georgia: Sunday trails Friday in Booked Occupancy (Nov 9–15, 2026)

Columbus, Georgia short-term rentals for Nov 9–15, 2026: Sunday trails Friday in Booked Occupancy even though the Home Expo runs through Sunday.

Updated November 10, 2026

The Columbus Home Expo runs through Sunday in Columbus, Georgia, giving the weekend a shared calendar attraction. Should that put Sunday, Nov 15, on the same footing as Friday, Nov 13, when reviewing the week?

Sunday has lower citywide Booked Occupancy than Friday during the Columbus Home Expo weekend. For Columbus, Georgia stays November 9, 2026–November 15, 2026, Wheelhouse data as of November 10, 2026 shows Booked Occupancy of 13.7% on Sunday, November 15, 2026, versus 24.3% on Friday, November 13, 2026. Sunday has more time remaining until arrival than Friday.

Wheelhouse data shows lower citywide Booked Occupancy on the Columbus Home Expo’s closing date than on its opening date.

The Expo weekend has different nightly readings

Friday, Nov 13, has the week’s highest Booked Occupancy, with Saturday, Nov 14, next at 23.1%. Sunday sits below both. The telling contrast is therefore not just the weekend peak: the event continues through a date with substantially lower Booked Occupancy.

Asking Rates follow the same ordering: $275 on Friday, $272 on Saturday and $235 on Sunday. Both measures distinguish Sunday from the preceding nights, making an Expo-wide pricing assumption less useful than looking at each weekday’s own history.

Columbus, GeorgiaData as of Nov 10, 2026

Columbus, Georgia · citywide context

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

November 10, 2026

Nov 10, 2026 – Nov 10, 2026 · Snapshot Nov 10, 2026

Booked occupancy
12.5%
Asking rate (USD)
$237

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.

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The Home Expo continues through Sunday

The Columbus Home Expo is scheduled at the Columbus Convention & Trade Center for November 13, 2026–November 15, 2026, within the analyzed stay window of November 9, 2026–November 15, 2026. The organizer lists Friday, Saturday and Sunday hours, with free admission.

That schedule gives the dates a shared event, but the weekday itself could explain the difference between Friday and Sunday. An event continuing through Sunday is not, by itself, a reason to expect Sunday night to resemble Friday night.

Last year’s November 2025 pattern adds historical booking-window context: the median listing-average lead-time range was 25–30 days. That describes last year’s completed stay month; the more relevant comparison for this week’s contrast is how each night stands against its own weekday history.

Columbus, Georgia · Lead time

Last year’s booking window: November 2025 stays

Listings in rangeCumulative listings
Share in rangeCumulative share0.0%0%3.0%25%6.0%50%9.0%75%12.0%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 9.7%Cumulative 9.7%
9.7% of listings averaged more than 0 days and up to 5 days of lead time;9.7% averaged at most 5 days.

As of Nov 10, 2026

Methodology and source

Nov 2025 stays · Retrieved Nov 10, 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%.

Sunday’s own history can change the priority

The citywide contrast makes Sunday the date to investigate, rather than treating the entire Expo weekend as a single pricing opportunity. What matters for an individual property is whether Sunday is unusual for a Sunday—not whether it matches Friday.

Use Wheelhouse Performance Analytics to compare bookings for Sunday, Nov 15, with past Sundays, and Friday, Nov 13, with past Fridays, checked the same number of days before arrival with the same nights open for booking. If Sunday trails its own historical booking level while Friday matches its own, keep the focus on Sunday. If both match their weekday histories, shift the focus from the Expo calendar to the property’s usual weekday pattern.

How Wheelhouse measures this

Wheelhouse Market Reports track bookings and advertised prices across short-term rental listings in Columbus, Georgia. This article uses Wheelhouse data as of November 10, 2026.

Booked Occupancy is the share of nights already reserved for each stay date as of November 10, 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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