Knoxville: Sunday trails Friday’s Booked Occupancy (Nov 2–8, 2026)

Knoxville short-term rentals, Nov 2–8, 2026: Sunday has lower Booked Occupancy than Friday, although the Christmas Fair continues through Sunday.

Updated November 2, 2026

The Christmas Fair continues through Sunday in Knoxville, Tennessee. For hosts planning around Nov 2–8, 2026, that raises a practical question: does Sunday night share the same market pattern as Friday and Saturday?

Sunday has lower citywide Booked Occupancy than Friday in Knoxville for stays November 2, 2026–November 8, 2026. Wheelhouse data as of October 30, 2026 shows Friday, November 6, 2026, at 32.8% Booked Occupancy versus Sunday, November 8, 2026, at 14.1% Booked Occupancy. Sunday has more time remaining until arrival than Friday.

Wheelhouse data shows that the Christmas Fair’s closing date has lower citywide Booked Occupancy than either Friday or Saturday.

Sunday sits below the weekend’s leading nights

The contrast extends beyond Booked Occupancy. Friday, Nov 6, and Saturday, Nov 7, share the week’s highest Asking Rate at $466; Sunday, Nov 8, is at $322. Saturday also has the highest Booked Occupancy, at 33.4%.

Together, those observations put Friday and Saturday in a different position from Sunday in this citywide view. For an operator deciding which dates need attention, Sunday is the more useful question than whether Saturday narrowly leads Friday.

KnoxvilleData as of Oct 30, 2026

Knoxville · citywide context

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

November 3, 2026

Nov 3, 2026 – Nov 3, 2026 · Snapshot Oct 30, 2026

Booked occupancy
10.5%
Asking rate (USD)
$289

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

The fair continues beyond the highest Booked Occupancy

The Knoxville Expo Center lists the Christmas Fair for November 6, 2026–November 8, 2026, within the analyzed stay window of November 2, 2026–November 8, 2026. Its schedule spans both the leading nights and Sunday’s lower reading. The weekday itself could explain the contrast; the event calendar supplies context rather than a reason to expect matching nightly results.

Last year’s November 2025 pattern adds a separate planning reference: median listing-average lead time fell in the 30–35 days range. That monthly view helps frame advance planning, while a Sunday-specific historical comparison is the more direct way to assess this week’s Sunday.

Knoxville · Lead time

Last year’s booking window: November 2025 stays

Listings in rangeCumulative listings
Share in rangeCumulative share0.0%0%2.3%25%4.5%50%6.8%75%9.0%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 7.6%Cumulative 7.6%
7.6% of listings averaged more than 0 days and up to 5 days of lead time;7.6% averaged at most 5 days.

As of Oct 30, 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%.

Your past Sundays can settle the priority

Use Wheelhouse Performance Analytics to examine Sunday, Nov 8, against past Sundays checked the same number of days before arrival, with the same nights open for booking. If your property’s Booked Occupancy is below those past Sundays, keep Sunday as the priority for a date-specific review; if it matches or exceeds them, shift attention to whether Friday and Saturday meet their own weekday comparisons. That result—not the fair’s closing date alone—should determine whether Sunday needs a different approach.

How Wheelhouse measures this

Wheelhouse Market Reports track bookings and advertised prices across short-term rental listings in Knoxville. This article uses Wheelhouse data as of October 30, 2026.

Booked Occupancy is the share of nights already reserved for each stay date as of October 30, 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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