Hotels in Algarve in December 2026 average £57/night for a couple, with good hotels from £39/night — based on 334 live price scans by HotelMonitor.
Last updated: 8 September 2026 · refreshed weekly from live scans
What you'll pay
£56 a night
Typical rate for two adults across 294 scans of Booking.com, Expedia and Hotels.com. The cheapest room we saw was £39.
Season
Low — -46% vs average
December is one of the cheapest windows of the year. The Algarve annual average is £103/night; the cheapest month we track is November 2026 at £50.
How December compares to every other month
Every figure is measured, not estimated — each bar is the average of our own scans for that month.
Bar length = average nightly rate. Green = cheapest month you can still book, orange = dearest, navy = this page. Every figure is measured from our own scans.
Should you book December 2026?
- This is one of the better-value months: £56/night against a Algarve average of £103.
- For comparison, July 2027 averages £183/night.
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Top-rated Algarve hotels we're tracking
Rated 9.7/10 or better and seen repeatedly in our scans of Algarve.
Other months in Algarve
Same measurement, different month — average nightly rate for two adults.
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Prices are per night for two adults, gathered by HotelMonitor's automated scans. They move daily — always check the live rate before booking.
Portugal · December 2026
