Rancho Mirage, California

Short-term rentals, defined as stays of 27 consecutive calendar days or less, are banned in every zone of Rancho Mirage. The prohibition took full effect July 1, 2022, following earlier 2020-2021 phase-out restrictions, and remains in place with no permit pathway. Only rentals with a 28-day-or-longer minimum stay are legal. Rancho Mirage is an affluent resort city of 18,001 residents in the Coachella Valley, Riverside County, nicknamed the Playground of the Presidents and the Golf Capital of the World. Sales and hotel taxes make up roughly 51% of the city’s annual revenue, reflecting how central hospitality and tourism are to its economy, even though that hospitality runs through hotels and 28-plus-day rentals rather than nightly short-term rentals. The performance data StaySTRA tracks for this area, however, reflects the broader Coachella Valley STR submarket, shared across a cluster of ten cities including Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta, North Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and Palm Springs, most of which do permit short-term rentals. In June 2026, that shared valley-wide data showed 41.2% occupancy at a $403 average daily rate, generating $4,764 in average monthly revenue. None of that performance is achievable within Rancho Mirage itself, since operating a short-term rental there is prohibited citywide; the figures are included here only as regional context for investors comparing Rancho Mirage against its Coachella Valley neighbors where STR investment remains legal. Bedroom mix, listing-type split, and top property manager data are also tracked at that shared regional level, not uniquely for Rancho Mirage, and given the citywide ban, this profile omits those figures rather than presenting a regional rollup as though it described Rancho Mirage’s own market.