Maui Car Rental: Price Tracker, Blog, News, Forecasts, Special Deals

Welcome to our Maui car rental data hub and price tracking page. We have monitored the volatile Maui rental car market weekly since 2013 to help you find the absolute best deal on your Maui car rental.

Whether you are booking months ahead or hunting for a last-minute rate at Kahului Airport (OGG) or Kahului Cruise port, use our charts and data to guide you to the best value for your Maui car rental.

What's In Our Industry-Leading Blog?

We have under our belt more than a decade - beginning from 2013 until now - of formally tracking and analyzing Maui car rental prices. We make this data available to you in a number of different engaging formats.

Deep Industry Knowledge

Knowing our industry better than anyone else is what makes us the absolute best place to rent a car in Maui. We give you the benefit of our in-depth knowledge of the market. We do all the Maui car rental price tracking and analysis, so you don't have to.

Systematic Price Tracking

We have eight complete years of comprehensive Maui car rental price data, collected without fail week in and week out over two decades. This covers a range of companies, locations, and vehicles. Obsessive? Yeah, maybe. We bring the same obsession with consistency and dependability to our own car rentals.

Price Comparisons

Fair and balanced, objective and unbiased - let's face it, car rental is about service, and it's also about price. We cover both with an unflinchingly honest perspective. When it comes to the "best Maui car rental," there can be only one - all the others are wanna-be's.

Latest Trends

Maui car rental is a volatile market that has shown again and again that it can turn on a dime in any direction. Vehicle recalls, logistics delays, over-crowded facilities - there's not a week that goes by without another shoe dropping. Find out what's going on here, before it blind-sides you.

Ready to Book?

When you're done reading and ready to take the next step: Send us your trip info, and we will get back to you quickly with the best offer. Or call us at 808-280-1196, and we'll get it all done within minutes. Or, if you're the DIY type, you can help yourself and shop for deals on our Maui car rental booking portal.

Maui Car Rental Price Trends

These are some of our Maui car rental blog's "greatest hits," summarized. To get more details, scroll down to the complete list of blog posts, arranged in historical order, starting with the most recent.

How much does it cost on average to rent a car in Maui?

Maui car rental prices change daily. The price on any given day is just a snapshot. We continuously track the most affordable rate for a next-day booking of a one-week rental from Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG) To give you an idea of a representative cost, this is the median over an entire year, for popular vehicle types:

Median Cost Over The Last 52 Weeks - July 21, 2025 to July 20, 2026

Median Cost of Maui Car Rental For 52 Weeks (One Year) Ending July 20, 2026
Vehicle	Cost/week
Economy	$347
Midsize	$432
Jeep	$775
Convertible	$772
SUV	$602
7 st SUV	$1,007
Minivan	$1,019

Updated on July 20, 2026.
Prices include all applicable taxes and fees.
Prices are highly volatile and change daily.
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How much does it cost right now to rent a car in Maui?

This is our most recent snapshot of the most affordable rate for a next-day booking of a one-week rental from Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG). This is the most recent lowest price, for representative vehicle types, with the rental company offering the price:

Weekly Price Update - July 20, 2026

Maui car rental weekly price update - July 20, 2026
Vehicle	Price/Week	Company
Economy	$387	Thrifty
Midsize	$504	Thrifty
Jeep	$878	Budget
Convertible	-	SOLD OUT
SUV	$549	Thrifty
7 St SUV	-	SOLD OUT
Minivan	$1,695	Alamo

Updated on July 20, 2026.
Prices include all applicable taxes and fees.
Prices are highly volatile and change daily.
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What time of year are Maui car rental prices the lowest?

We might not be able to tell you exactly when they are the lowest, but we can tell you with some confidence when they are likely to be the highest. These seasonal patterns repeat year to year like clock-work.

Christmas and New Year's (the peak)
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday (mid-January)
Presidents' Day (mid-February)
Spring Break (mid-March)
Easter Holiday (late March/April)
Summer Vacation (mid-June to mid-July)
Columbus Day (mid-October)
Veterans' Day (mid-November)
Thanksgiving (late November)

The so-called "Shoulder Seasons" when prices are lowest are from Easter through Memorial Day, and August to September.

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Is it cheaper to rent a car at the Maui airport, or off-airport?

Um. Yes. No. Sometimes. Maybe. There is no longer any hard and fast rule for this. It is not unusual that the so-called cheap off-airport rates are actually more than the rates at the airport. Don't let yourself be roped in by all the "Cheapest" providers. After all, they cannot ALL be THE cheapest.

Out of the 10 Maui car rental companies that claim to have the cheapest prices, 9 of them are either mistaken in their claim, or lying.

Note that the conventional premium for airport rentals - based on hefty airport taxes and concession fees - has all but evaporated. Thanks to their economies of scale, the airport concessionaires are in a position to charge lower rates than anyone else - and sometimes they do, but only when they feel like it. The rest of the time they will squeeze you mercilessly to get every last nickel and dime out of you.

IN SUMMARY: Rental car prices in Maui are very volatile. Shop around.

Do Maui car rental prices go down closer to the date?

Maui car rental prices flip regularly between lower rates in advance, and lower rates at the last minute.

The alternation has become more unpredictable in recent years, with the advent of AI machine learning systems that constantly reset prices in order to extract maximum value out of the rental fleets.

If you just "set it and forget it" weeks or months in advance, it is likely that you will be overpaying. You are advised to book a non-prepaid (like the no-deposit, no-prepay, no cancellation rates we offer) as soon as you start making plans for your trip, then check prices weekly from then on until the days just before your travel date. There is a significant potential for savings if you do so.

Check the price tracker on our blog for when advance rates are likely to be higher or lower than last minute rates.

Why are Maui car rentals so expensive?

There is an continuing succession of factors that have pushed Maui car rental prices upward drastically in the last few years:

2021-2022: Severe rental car shortage following the Covid-19 pandemic. Prices exploded.
2024: World-wide shipping bottlenecks delayed arrival of rental cars when they were most needed, in advance of the busy travel season. Prices exploded -again.
2025: Back-to-back safety recalls idled thousands of rental vehicles, reducing available supply. Prices exploded - yet again.
2026: Demise of low-cost competitors meant machine-learning price-setting algorithms felt free to hold prices at higher levels - and prices went KA-BOOM, consistently about double since the beginning of the year from what they were a year earlier.

What does the future hold? Keep up with it on our blog.

Maui Car Rental Price Charts

These Maui car rental price charts are produced by a PhD analyst utilizing advanced AI tools. They cover historical data, price comparisons, analysis of advance booking price movements, and more. We use these charts to gain a full understanding of the Maui car rental market, so we can give you the best possible price for any rental. The charts are based on actual data from real booking websites, gathered on an ongoing basis in a systematic methodical way. Check prices instantly on our online booking portal, or send us your trip info to get pricing for your trip.

Cost ($/week) of Maui rental cars at Kahului Airport (OGG) in popular categories,
from March 2025 to July 2026. Updated July 19, 2026 — Cost ($/week) of Maui rental cars at Kahului Airport (OGG) in popular categories, from March 2025 to July 2026. Updated July 19, 2026

Three years of Maui car rental prices from July 2023 to July 2026. Cost of one week rental for the most affordable car at Kahului Airport (OGG) from airport providers and off-airport providers served by free shuttle. Note the increase in the "price floor" in spring/summer 2026. Update July 12, 2026.

Average Cost ($/week) of Maui rental cars at Kahului Airport (OGG) in 2026 vs 2025. — Average cost of most affordable Maui rental car in each month at Kahului Airport (OGG), for year ending June 30, 2026 vs. year ending June 30 2025, with year-to-year change.

Average cost ($/week) of Maui rental cars at Kahului Airport (OGG) in popular categories, for the month of June, 2026, compared to June 2025, with the percentage change year-over-year. — Average cost ($/week) of Maui rental cars at Kahului Airport (OGG) in popular categories, for the month of June, 2026, compared to June 2025, with the percentage change year-over-year

Average cost ($/week) during the month of May 2026 compared to May 2025, for Maui rental cars at
Kahului Airport (OGG), with percentage change, for popular vehicle categories. — Average cost ($/week) during the month of May 2026 compared to May 2025, for Maui rental cars at Kahului Airport (OGG), with percentage change, for popular vehicle categories.

Cost ($/week) of Maui rental cars in popular categories, booked one day in advance,
compared to booking one
week in advance, and five weeks in advance. Advantage alternates between last-minute
booking and advance booking. — Cost ($/week) of Maui rental cars in popular categories, booked one day in advance, compared to booking one week in advance, and five weeks in advance. Advantage alternates between last-minute booking and advance booking.

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Blog

Maui car rental news and updates and weekly survey of lowest advertised Maui car rental rates. Our editorial team just loves to take every week's data analysis and put it into a readable, engaging format that anyone can understand and enjoy. This makes this blog an absolute must-read! Or click to listen to select blog posts as an engaging audio podcast.

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