Staying near Basel: the 2026 figures

K Résidence rents 6 apartments in Saint-Louis (Alsace, France), on the border with Basel. The K Résidence Barometer 2026 sums up 500 stays and 1,688 nights, from 10 November 2025 to 9 November 2026.

How long do people stay near Basel?

According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, a stay in an apartment in Saint-Louis lasts 3.4 nights on average.
That is 1.8 times longer than in the hotels of Basel-Stadt, where the average stay was 1.86 nights in 2025 (Statistical Office of Basel-Stadt, 2026).
According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, 40% of stays last a single night and 38% last 2 or 3 nights.
According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, 8% of stays last a week or longer.

How many people travel together?

According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, a group has 3 people on average.
According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, 40% of bookings are for 4 people or more.
According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, 17% of guests travel alone and 27% travel as a pair.

How far ahead do people book?

According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, one booking in two (51%) is made no more than 2 days before arrival.
According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, 27% of bookings are made on the day of arrival.
According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, only 10% of bookings are made more than a month ahead.

When do people come?

According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, December is the month with the most arrivals: 12% of the year's stays.
According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, October and April are the months with the most nights.
According to the K Résidence Barometer 2026, 37% of arrivals fall on a Friday or a Saturday.

Basel and its region in figures

Basel-Stadt recorded 1,686,289 hotel overnight stays in 2025, a record, up 8.5% on 2024 (Statistical Office of Basel-Stadt, 12 February 2026).
907,235 guests stayed in the hotels of Basel-Stadt in 2025 (Statistical Office of Basel-Stadt, 2026).
63% of hotel overnight stays in Basel-Stadt come from abroad; Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom are the top three countries (Statistical Office of Basel-Stadt, 2026).
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg handled 9.6 million passengers in 2025, its record (EuroAirport, 2026).

Method

The K Résidence Barometer 2026 covers the 500 confirmed stays in our 6 apartments with an arrival between 10 November 2025 and 9 November 2026. Length of stay and dates are based on these 500 stays. Group size and booking lead time are based on the 369 stays booked online. The figures are anonymous totals: no personal data is used.

You may quote these figures by citing the "K Résidence Barometer 2026" with a link to this page.