Prices and rules on this page last verified: 19 October 2026
Search Booking.com for a Makkah hotel for the last ten nights of Ramadan 1448 — 27 February 2027 — and something strange happens. Most of the famous towers around the Haram do not come back with a price. They come back with a sentence: “This property is unavailable on our site for your dates.”
We checked all ten of the largest Makkah hotels on 24 August 2026, eighteen months ahead. Seven returned no rooms at all — or so we thought. One of those seven, the Fairmont Clock Royal Tower, was in fact selling those dates on a two-night minimum that our one-night search could not see. The figure for that reading was six of ten, not seven. It has moved since — see the update above for the current count and its date. One of those seven was our mistake — see the correction above. The figure is six.
Update, 19 October 2026 — ninth reading
Still seven of ten — but after eight weeks of identical figures, the prices finally moved. Conrad Jabal Omar went $1,653 to $1,630, and Mercure Makkah Aziziah $78 to $85, its first change since 24 August. DoubleTree Jabal Omar is unchanged at $870. Makkah Clock Royal Tower remains withdrawn at one night, two nights and seven, for a third consecutive week.
Availability keeps improving. Bookable Makkah properties for 27 February have gone 97 → 101 → 103, and Booking.com’s banner now reads 74% unavailable — the lowest figure we have recorded, down from 79% in August. The count of our top-ten hotels showing no rooms has read 7, 6, 7, 7, 7 across five readings, which is why this piece does not put a number in its title.
Worth knowing if you are weighing Ramadan against another month: in the same week that these Ramadan rates barely moved, Makkah’s late-November rates fell by about a fifth across the board, and a five-date check suggests the whole of November has been repriced rather than one date discounted. The gap between Ramadan and an ordinary month has therefore widened sharply. Conrad is $343 on 22 November and $1,630 on 27 February — 4.8 times the price for the same room. The detail is on our price index page.
In Madinah, Anwar Al Madinah Mövenpick — the only Madinah hotel we track that sells these dates — is at $386.50 a night on a two-night minimum, up fifty cents. Le Meridien Medina is $199, its first move after eight readings at $198.
Update, 12 October 2026 — eighth reading
Still seven of ten, and in eight weeks the three hotels that do sell these dates have moved by one dollar between them. Conrad Jabal Omar $1,653 (it has alternated between $1,653 and $1,654 all series), DoubleTree Jabal Omar $870, Mercure Makkah Aziziah $78. Makkah Clock Royal Tower is withdrawn for a second consecutive week: nothing at one night, two nights or seven.
Availability stopped falling. Bookable Makkah properties for 27 February went 102 → 98 → 97 → 101, and Booking.com’s banner now reads 75% unavailable — the lowest it has been since we started, down from 79% in August. Last week we described two consecutive falls; this week reverses them. One week is not a trend in either direction, which is why the count is not in the title of this piece.
The one real change is in Madinah. Anwar Al Madinah Mövenpick — the only Madinah hotel we track that sells 27 February at all — raised its rate for the first time, from $359.50 to $386.00 a night, still only bookable as a two-night minimum ($772 for the pair). Le Meridien Medina remains $198, as at every reading since 24 August.
Update, 5 October 2026 — seventh reading
Still seven of ten, and the rates have not moved once in seven weeks. Conrad Jabal Omar $1,654, DoubleTree Jabal Omar $870, Mercure Makkah Aziziah $78 — the same three hotels at the same three figures since 24 August. Makkah Clock Royal Tower, which sold these dates on a two-night minimum for one week in late September, is withdrawn again: nothing at one night, two nights or seven.
Availability has now fallen two weeks running: 102 → 98 → 97 bookable Makkah properties, with the banner at 76% unavailable. Madinah’s counts dropped across all three windows this week too. The five weeks of slow loosening have reversed.
The contrast with everything else sharpened this week. Makkah’s ordinary-November basket rose 4.8% and the winter-holiday basket 3.0% — the largest moves in the series, and the first time the whole basket moved together rather than one hotel carrying it. Ramadan 2027 did not move at all. Dates that are freely on sale are repricing; dates that are mostly not on sale are not. Full figures on the Umrah hotel price index.
Update, 28 September 2026 — and why we took the number out of the title
This week it is seven of ten again. Makkah Clock Royal Tower, which last week we corrected ourselves to say was selling Ramadan on a two-night minimum, has withdrawn that inventory. It now returns nothing at one night, nothing at two, and nothing at seven — the full ladder, tested this week.
Which is the point. The count is not a fixed fact: it was seven in August, six last week, seven today. A headline pinned to one number will always be out of date, so we have taken it out of the title and put the live figure here instead, with the date attached. As of 28 September 2026: seven of the ten largest Makkah hotels show no rooms for 27 February 2027 at any length of stay we tested.
City-wide, Ramadan availability went backwards for the first time in six weeks: 102 → 98 bookable Makkah properties, with Booking.com’s banner back up from 75% to 77% unavailable. Against 234 properties bookable for an ordinary November night, Ramadan sits at 42% — the same ratio it has held for six weeks.
The three hotels that are selling have not moved at all: Conrad Jabal Omar $1,654, DoubleTree Jabal Omar $870, Mercure Makkah Aziziah $78 — the same figures since 24 August. Rates frozen, inventory shrinking. Weekly figures on the Umrah hotel price index.
Correction, 21 September 2026 — the number was seven, it is six
We got part of this wrong, and the error was in our method. Every reading behind this article searched for a one-night stay. When a hotel sets a minimum-stay rule, a one-night search returns “unavailable on our site” even though the room is on sale. We read that as no inventory. It is not the same thing.
Re-testing every hotel at two nights, and at seven where two still failed: Makkah Clock Royal Tower (Fairmont) is selling the last ten nights of Ramadan 1448. One night returns unavailable; two nights returns $3,337 and seven nights $11,679 — both about $1,669 a night. In Madinah, Anwar Al Madinah Mövenpick is the same: unavailable for one night, $692 for two, $346 a night.
So it is most of the ten largest Makkah hotels showing no rooms, not seven, and this article’s title has been changed to say so. The six were re-tested at one and two nights, and three of them at seven, before we recorded them as empty.
The argument below is unchanged and, if anything, sharper: “unavailable on our site” has never meant sold out. We have now demonstrated one concrete reason why, on our own data. If a Makkah or Madinah hotel shows nothing for your dates, add a night and search again before you believe it. Week-by-week figures are on the price index.
What we found
| Hotel | Tier | Standard 22 Nov 2026 | Winter 28 Dec 2026 | Ramadan 27 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Makkah Clock Royal Tower, A Fairmont Hotel Abraj Al Bait | Luxury | $445 | $665 | withdrawn sold 2-night stays in Sept; now nothing at 1, 2 or 7 nights |
| InterContinental Dar Al Tawhid Makkah by IHG Ibrahim Al Khalil | Luxury | $366 | $666 | no inventory |
| Conrad Jabal Omar Makkah Jabal Omar | Luxury | no inventory | $509 | $1,654 |
| Zamzam Pullman Makkah Abraj Al Bait | Upper | $332 | $489 | no inventory |
| Swissotel Makkah Abraj Al Bait | Upper | $382 | $545 | no inventory |
| Jabal Omar Hyatt Regency Makkah Jabal Omar | Upper | $237 | $567 | no inventory |
| Al Marwa Rayhaan by Rotana – Makkah Abraj Al Bait | Upper | $248 | $479 | no inventory |
| Anjum Makkah Hotel Jabal Omar / Ibrahim Al Khalil | Mid | $190 | $439 | no inventory |
| Doubletree By Hilton Jabal Omar Makkah Jabal Omar | Mid | $199 | $317 | $870 |
| Mercure Makkah Aziziah Aziziyah (shuttle) | Budget | no inventory | $41 | $78 |
Three hotels had rooms. Conrad Jabal Omar at $1,654, DoubleTree Jabal Omar at $870, and Mercure Aziziah — a shuttle ride out — at $78. City-wide, Booking.com returned 82 bookable properties in Mecca for that night, against 206 for an ordinary night in November and 190 for the December holidays. Booking’s own banner on the Ramadan search reads: “79% of places to stay are unavailable for your dates on our site.” Those are the 24 August figures. As of 5 October 2026 the same searches return 97 bookable Makkah properties for Ramadan against 239 for November, and the banner reads 76% — every reading is on the price index.
Madinah tells you what is really going on
If Ramadan simply sold out, Madinah should look the same. It does not. Medina returns 476 bookable properties for the same Ramadan night and 595 for November — barely a dent.
And yet every one of the five central, mosque-facing Madinah hotels we track showed no inventory at all for a routine night in November, while 595 other Medina properties were bookable that same night. The city is not full. The branded hotels beside the Prophet’s Mosque are simply not selling through this channel.
That is the clearest evidence we have that these blanks are about distribution — which channel a hotel chooses to sell through — and not about demand.
Why “sold out” is the wrong word
It is tempting to read this as evidence that Ramadan sells out eighteen months ahead. Be careful. Booking.com’s wording is precise, and it does not say sold out. It says unavailable on our site.
Those are different claims. A hotel shows this either because its rooms are genuinely gone, or because it gives Booking.com no allocation for that date and sells it another way — through Saudi tour operators, through Nusuk Masar, or as part of packages that never touch a Western booking site.
The case that settles it
If demand were the whole explanation, a hotel should be harder to book in Ramadan than in a quiet month. Conrad Jabal Omar does the opposite. It shows no inventory for an ordinary Sunday in November 2026, and is bookable for the last ten nights of Ramadan 2027.
A hotel cannot be more sold out in November than in Ramadan. Whatever is driving the blanks, it is not simply demand — and anyone telling you these hotels are “already sold out” is reading more into the page than it says.
What this means if you are planning
- Do not panic-book at any price. The absence of a listing is not proof that rooms are gone. It may only mean Booking.com is not the channel selling them.
- Check the hotel directly. Brand sites frequently hold inventory that OTAs do not show. For central Makkah in Ramadan this is the rule rather than the exception.
- Look at Nusuk Masar. Saudi Arabia’s official platform sells packages that include hotels which never appear on Western booking sites.
- Price the shuttle tier honestly. Mercure Aziziah at $78 versus Conrad at $1,654 is a 21× difference for the same night. That gap is far wider in Ramadan than at any other time.
- Treat any “book now, only 2 left” urgency with suspicion on dates this far out.
What we still do not know
We do not know whether these hotels will release inventory closer to the date, and if so, when and at what price. We do not know whether the ones showing rooms today will get more expensive or less. This is a single reading taken on one day.
We are checking the same 15 hotels against the same dates every week and publishing the results on our Umrah hotel price index. In two months that page will answer the question this one cannot: when does Ramadan inventory actually move, and how much does waiting cost you.
How we checked
Each hotel was searched individually by name on Booking.com on 24 August 2026 for check-in 27 February 2027, one night, two adults, one room, prices in USD excluding tax, browsing from outside Saudi Arabia. Where a hotel returned no price we searched it a second time by its exact listing name to rule out a spelling mismatch before recording it as unavailable. Two hotels were re-checked a third time because their prices looked anomalous; both were confirmed.
Where to stay when you can book
For ordinary dates the choice is wide open. See what each Makkah district actually costs — walking 350 metres further from the Haram cuts the nightly rate by about 42%.