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Short-term rentals in Kiel

Kiel has 763 tracked short-term rental listings in myDataValue's November 2026 snapshot, 490 on Airbnb and 273 on Booking.com. That ranks it 149th of 618 short-term rental markets across Germany, with 64% of its listings on Airbnb. 12% of supply is run by professional operators, below the median market's 29%, led by ProStay Apartments (16 listings). Counts are tracked public listings, not total supply.

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Tracked listings
763
Market rank
#149 / 618
National share
0.2%
Named professional operators
9

Airbnb vs Booking.com in Kiel

In Kiel, Airbnb leads with 490 listings (64%), versus 273 on Booking.com (36%).

Where the listings are in Kiel

The dots are a representative sample of tracked short-term rentals — Airbnb in red and Booking.com in blue. Zoom and pan to explore the market, or open the full report for filters, operator overlays, and the listing-level view.

Airbnb Booking.com 250 sampled locations from 763 tracked listings — open the full interactive report

Market structure in Kiel

Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 16% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 9% on Airbnb. The 9 named professional operators run 53 local listings between them, and the three largest — ProStay Apartments, SECRA Bookings GmbH and Elephant Apartments Group GmbH — account for 66% of that. The other 37 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Professional share
12%
Median market
29%
Single-listing hosts
40%

Listings by operator portfolio size

Tracked listings grouped by how many properties their operator runs — from single hosts to 26+ professionals.

  • Single listing 309
  • 2–5 listings 227
  • 6–25 listings 137
  • 26+ (professional) 90

Listings by property type

Apartments & flats make up 70% of Kiel's classified listings, followed by Private & shared rooms (13%).

  • Apartments & flats 536
  • Private & shared rooms 101
  • Hotels & hostels 55
  • Houses, cottages & holiday homes 49
  • B&Bs & guest houses 15
  • Unique & outdoor 7

Largest operators in Kiel

Ranked by local tracked listings across Airbnb and Booking.com. Scores and portfolio review totals are aggregated across each operator's tracked Germany listings. The table covers every professional operator we track in this market.

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Largest operators in Kiel, ranked by local tracked listings.
# Operator Listings Airbnb score Booking.com score Portfolio reviews
1 ProStay Apartments 16 4.50 / 5 6.9 / 10 93
2 SECRA Bookings GmbH 11 4.70 / 5 8.4 / 10 83,689
3 Elephant Apartments Group GmbH 8 4.63 / 5 7.3 / 10 419
4 B&B Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz 6 4.58 / 5 7.9 / 10 433,569
5 Travanto Ferienwohnungen 6 4.68 / 5 8.2 / 10 18,128
6 e-domizil GmbH 2 4.78 / 5 8.9 / 10 6,355
7 NOVASOL AS 2 4.39 / 5 7.8 / 10 16,645
8 hilton.com 1 4.66 / 5 8.4 / 10 219,838
9 Residence INN 1 4.83 / 5 8.4 / 10 314,029

Browse the full Germany operator directory →

Operators enter the index after reaching 26 listings across Germany and count Kiel among their markets. See the full interactive Kiel market report for additional filters and operator comparisons.

How Kiel compares

Kiel ranks 149th of 618 tracked markets in Germany, with 0.2% of tracked supply in this coverage. Markets of similar size:

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Kiel market FAQ

How many short-term rentals are in Kiel?

Kiel has 763 short-term rental listings as of November 2026: 490 on Airbnb and 273 on Booking.com.

Who is the largest short-term rental operator in Kiel?

The largest professional operator in Kiel is ProStay Apartments, with 16 local listings.

How professionalised is the Kiel short-term rental market?

12% of Kiel's listings (90 of 763) are run by operators with 26 or more listings, below the median of 618 markets across Germany (29%). Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 16% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 9% on Airbnb. The 9 named professional operators run 53 local listings between them, and the three largest — ProStay Apartments, SECRA Bookings GmbH and Elephant Apartments Group GmbH — account for 66% of that. The other 37 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Is Airbnb or Booking.com bigger in Kiel?

In Kiel, Airbnb leads with 490 listings (64%), versus 273 on Booking.com (36%).

How many professional operators run listings in Kiel?

9 named professional operators run listings in Kiel. The full roster is listed on this page, and the interactive market report maps every listing.

About this data

Figures come from myDataValue's cross-platform market snapshot of 763 public short-term rental listings in Kiel, matching Airbnb and Booking.com supply to the operators who run it. Operators enter the index after reaching 26 listings on Airbnb or Booking.com across Germany. Snapshot dates: Airbnb , Booking.com .

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