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Price index method
How the Yacht Charter Price Index Is Built
Worldwide, the median crewed yacht charter costs $94,110 a week in low season. The middle half of the fleet charters for $65,000 to $152,928 a week, from 1,095 yachts priced.
How a Figure Is Made
Four steps, every month, the same way for every destination.
- Step 1 Owner rate sheets Low and high season week rates in US dollars, for 1,095 yachts of 80 ft and over.
- Step 2 Monthly freeze Taken on the 1st of each month and kept as it was. First: October 2026.
- Step 3 Median and middle half Per destination, size and season, from 8 yachts or more, never one yacht.
- Step 4 Like for like index Only yachts priced in both months move it. 100 in October 2026.
Which Yachts Count
A destination is priced from its home fleet: the yachts based in that country, not every yacht that may cruise there. A yacht counts once, in the country it is based in. The worldwide figure is every home fleet together.
A figure is published only when at least 8 yachts stand behind it, the same floor the destination cost pages use.
Which Rates Are Used
Each yacht is priced from the weekly rates on its owner rate sheet, in US dollars: the low season rate and the high season rate, each counted in its own season. These are charter fees, before APA, tax and gratuity.
A weekly rate below $1,000 or above $5,000,000 is treated as an entry error and left out of that season.
The Median and the Range
The headline is the median weekly rate: half the yachts charter for less and half for more. The range is the middle half of the fleet, from the 25th to the 75th percentile. Each is the nearest ranked rate, never an average of two.
Yachts are also grouped by length in feet: 80 to 100 ft, 100 to 130 ft, 130 to 160 ft, 160 ft and above. A yacht under 80 ft is not counted.
The Like for Like Index
The median moves when yachts join or leave the fleet, so the index compares like with like. Each month it takes only the yachts priced in both months, in the same destination and size class, and moves by the change in their median.
A yacht priced in euros or another currency is compared at the same exchange rate in both months, so a rate its owner did not change counts as no change, and the index never moves on the exchange rate alone.
The index was 100 in October 2026, the first month frozen. When fewer than 8 yachts can be matched, that month has no index figure, and the row starts again at 100 the next month it can be priced.
Frozen Once a Month
Rates and fleets change slowly, so the index is frozen once a month, early in the month, and each month is kept as it was frozen. A change figure appears once two months have been frozen, and a figure on the year before once the same month has been frozen a year earlier.
This is method v1. A change of method will be published here with its own version.