An Eighteen-Night Run in Three Windows
SF Sketchfest runs from 14 to 31 January 2027. The organiser's home page carries that window in its banner, and the page description names the 24th year of the San Francisco Comedy Festival.
The run holds 18 days and 18 nights. Sunday 31 January 2027 is the last night, and checkout falls on Monday 1 February 2027.
The demand signal for this cycle sits on the organiser's partner-hotel page, which publishes the prior stay as three dated windows.
The Ladder the Organiser Published
The partner page reads: "Sketchfest attendees enjoy exclusive rates on overnight hotel stays, January 15 - February 1, 2026. To reserve, please select for either Week 1 (Jan 15-18), Week 2 (Jan 19-25) or Week 3 (Jan 26-Feb 2) or call 415-922-3200 and ask for SF Sketchfest."
Read the three labels as arrival and departure pairs, and they cover 3, 6 and 7 nights. That is 16 nights against the 17-night span printed on the same page.
The nights of Sunday 18 January and Sunday 25 January 2026 fall outside all three windows. Read the same labels as nights of stay, and they total 19.
Every window on the page belongs to the 2026 cycle. The page carries a modification stamp of 10 November 2025.
Where the 2027 Nights Land
Thursday 14 January 2027 opens the run. Sunday 31 January 2027 closes the stay. The 2026 cycle opened on Thursday 15 January, 364 days earlier.
Count the weekdays across the 18 nights. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday carry three nights each. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday carry two each.
Six of the 18 nights fall on a Friday or a Saturday. Six fall on a Monday, a Tuesday or a Wednesday.
Split the run at its Sunday boundaries and it reads Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 January, Monday 18 to Sunday 24 January, and Monday 25 January to Monday 1 February.
Midweek and Weekend Rates
Engine measures the citywide basis. It reports $165 a night across 3.1M public rate observations from May 2024 to April 2026, with January at $166 and December at $129.
The page defines every figure as a par rate, the cheapest publicly available price at the time of each search, drawn from searches made 10 to 180 days before check-in. The publisher reports 35 percent between the cheapest month and the priciest, a rank of 18 of 50 markets, and a city average 11 percent above the $148 median of those 50 markets.
Two Named Partner Hotels
The partner page names two properties. Hotel Kabuki carries the line "a JdV by Hyatt hotel, is proud to be an Official Hotel Partner of Sketchfest 2026!" and a published inventory of 225 rooms and suites. Hotel Enso carries its own partner heading and a corporate ID of 787113000 for discounted rates.
The three window labels are links. Their href values carry the codes G-SFS6, G-SFS7 and G-SFS5 under Hyatt property code SFOJD. Their title attributes carry G-DU2M, G-WS1O and G-TENJ.
A fourth code for the same Kabuki property sits on the organiser's sponsors page as corp_id=47122. That anchor carries no visible text, so the code is reachable only through the href.
No 2027 rate, block, cut-off or minimum stay appears on the partner page.
The Prior Cycle Puts Weight on Saturday
The organiser's 2026 schedule host lists 216 sessions across 13 venue names, dated 15 January to 1 February 2026, with a separate block on 18 February 2026.
Saturday 17 January, Saturday 24 January and Saturday 31 January carry 24, 24 and 25 sessions. Friday carries 16, 14 and 16. Sunday carries 17, 16 and 15.
Monday 19 January carries one session. Tuesday 20 January and Wednesday 21 January carry six each. Monday 26 January 2026 carries no session.
The 2027 host is live. It publishes the ticket clock, "Tickets on sale Sunday November 15 at 10:00 AM Pacific!", and no session list.
The Calendar Around the Run
The Moscone Center feed holds three January 2027 records. Winter FancyFaire runs 17 to 19 January, the ASCO GI Cancers Symposium runs 21 to 23 January, and SPIE Photonics West runs 30 January to 4 February. No record in the feed covers 14 to 31 January.
The AHLA and CHLA Oxford Economics study of 25 June 2026 reports that each hotel room night drives about $900 in citywide spending per visitor.
The Arithmetic for a Rate Desk
Eighteen nights at the $166 January line come to $2,988. Eighteen nights at $900 per room night come to $16,200.
The Kabuki's 225 rooms across 18 nights hold 4,050 room nights. At $166 a night, the house holds $672,300 across the run.