Hot Springs per diem ratesArkansas · FY 2027
Hot Springs’s full-year average lodging cap is the lowest of the 295 non-standard areas, only $2 a night above the standard $113. Hot Springs is the only Arkansas area above the standard rate in FY 2027. Hot Springs’s meals-and-incidentals rate equals the standard $68, which only 17 non-standard areas keep.
Four days in Hot Springs
Monday, October 5, 2026, to Thursday: up to $583, three nights of lodging plus $238 M&IE.
One cap covers all twelve months, 1.8% above the standard rate.
Hot Springs since FY 2021
Since FY 2021 Hot Springs’s full-year average has grown 11.7%; ranked by that growth, Hot Springs sits between Denver / Aurora (CO) and Manchester (NH). Against FY 2026, Hot Springs’s full-year average rose 0.9%, between Nantucket (MA) and Palm Springs (CA) among year-on-year changes. In FY 2021 Hot Springs ranked 274th of 293 by full-year average, between Helena (MT) and Starkville (MS). Along the way: flat in FY 2023, up 7.8% in FY 2024, up 2.7% in FY 2025.