U.S. padel hourly medians remain $60–$100 in the 2026 report

Published summaries of The U.S. Padel Report 2026 put national median hourly court rates at $100 for indoor peak bookings, $80 for indoor off-peak and outdoor peak bookings, and $60 for outdoor off-peak bookings. All four figures are reported as unchanged from the previous annual report—not as the minimum and maximum prices available across the country. Sports News Blitz’s coverage identifies the report’s market snapshot as Q2 2026.

For players, these are comparison benchmarks rather than booking quotes. For operators, they describe reported pricing, not revenue earned or profitability.

Hourly rates and the four-player split

Source: Misitrano Consulting’s 2026 report, as summarized in Sports News Blitz and Citybiz. The per-player and 90-minute columns are calculations, not observed club prices. They assume four equal shares and proportional billing, before any additional charges. Sources checked October 9, 2026.

The reported off-peak medians are $20 lower per court-hour than the peak medians: 20% lower indoors or 25% outdoors. Indoor pricing is also $20 higher than outdoor pricing in each time category. These differences compare national categories; they do not establish the discount or indoor premium at any particular club.

Check whether a club quotes per person or per court

A price labelled “court rental” can still be a per-person charge. Bay Padel’s official pricing page explicitly uses that basis. As checked October 9, 2026, it lists non-member padel rates of $40 per person for a peak hour and $25 off-peak; member rates are $20 and $10 respectively, with membership purchased separately. Four non-members therefore total $160 for a peak hour or $100 off-peak. Bay Padel defines peak periods as weekdays beginning at 4 p.m. and all day on weekends. Bay Padel pricing

That example illustrates why a seemingly low advertised number should not be compared directly with a whole-court benchmark. It is not evidence of a separate national average.

Before comparing a booking with the table, check:

• Billing unit: the whole court or each player.
• Duration: 60, 90 or 120 minutes, and whether pricing scales proportionally.
• Eligibility: member, non-member or promotional rate, including membership dues where relevant.
• Final cost: equipment, taxes and fees, plus the cancellation conditions.

How much confidence should the national figures carry?

The publisher’s report landing page offers access through a form and emailed download link. It does not publicly display the pricing tables or their detailed methodology. The figures here are therefore reported national medians, not independently reconstructed statistics.

The public summaries do not establish the pricing sample size, whether observations are weighted by facility or court, or how membership rates and peak periods are standardized. A median is a midpoint of the observations used—not an arithmetic average, a price ceiling or necessarily the rate most players pay.

Stable medians do not prove clubs avoided discounting

Citybiz reports operating-court growth of 61.6%, from 688 to 1,110, alongside unchanged median prices. That supports a narrow finding: the reported pricing midpoints held steady while the court inventory expanded. Citybiz

It does not show that every club held its rates, that promotions were absent, or that demand kept pace with supply. A national median can remain unchanged while individual prices move or the mix of venues changes. The inventory comparison is examined separately in the U.S. padel facilities count.

For a club-level commercial assessment, the missing measures are paid court-hours, realized revenue per paid hour, membership income and operating costs. For a player budgeting a match, the useful comparison is simpler: the final price for the same duration, time slot and membership status—not the headline hourly number alone.