In short
Valor Padel counted 153 padel clubs in 37 US metro areas in October 2026: 119 operating and 34 opening soon. The typical club has 4 courts, most courts are indoors, and a non-member pays a median $25 per player per hour at peak times. Florida, Texas, California and New York hold 52% of clubs.
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Key findings
- Valor's directory lists 153 padel clubs in 37 US metro areas across 27 states and Washington, DC. 119 are operating and 34 are announced but not yet open.
- Four states hold 52% of the clubs (79 of 153): Florida (25), Texas (21), California (21) and New York (12).
- The typical club has 4 courts (median of 69 operating clubs that publish a court count; range 1 to 12).
- 65% of courts are indoors (129 of 198) at the 45 clubs that say which of their courts are indoor and which are outdoor.
- A non-member pays a median $25 per player per hour at peak times (n=36 clubs; middle half $16.88 to $32.25) and $20 off-peak (n=24).
- The entry-level monthly membership has a median of $119.50 (n=46 clubs; middle half $66.75 to $149.25).
- Playtomic is the most common booking platform, used by 26 of the 67 operating clubs whose booking system we could identify (39%). Another 23 book through their own or a branded app.
Every figure comes from Valor's own club directory, compiled on 2026-10-26 from club records last checked between 2026-10-11 and 2026-10-23, and each one shows the number of clubs behind it. It counts the clubs we could verify from their own published information. It is not a census of every court in the country, so read the totals as a floor, not a national count.
Where the clubs are
New York City and Miami lead by a wide margin, each with about twice as many clubs as Los Angeles. The New York metro in this report includes nearby New Jersey, Westchester and Long Island clubs, and Miami includes clubs from Palm Beach to Miami-Dade. Texas has clubs spread across Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin rather than one dominant city.
Florida (25), Texas (21), California (21) and New York (12) together account for 79 of the 153 clubs. New Jersey is next with 9, most of them around New York City. The rest are spread across 22 more states and Washington, DC, most of them with one to seven clubs.
Club size and court type
US padel clubs are small. Among the 69 operating clubs that publish a court count, the median is 4 courts, and only 6 have seven or more. Those 69 clubs have 296 courts between them. That total covers only clubs that publish a number, so it understates the national figure.
Indoor courts dominate where we can tell. Of the 45 clubs that say which courts are indoor and which are outdoor, 27 are indoor only, 17 are outdoor only and 1 has both. Across those clubs, 129 of 198 courts are indoors.
What it costs to play
Clubs quote prices in different ways: per court or per player, per hour, per 90 minutes or per two-hour slot. To compare them we converted every published non-member court rental price to a price per player per hour, assuming four players on a doubles court when a club quotes per court. We left out member-only, student, guest, introductory and opening-special prices, and any price that did not say whether it was per court or per player or how long the session ran. 52 clubs publish a court rental price, and 36 of them could be converted this way.
The median peak price is $25 per player per hour, and half of clubs charge between $16.88 and $32.25. Prices run from $13.33 to $56.25. Off-peak, the median is $20 (n=24, range $6.38 to $37.50). At clubs that publish both, peak hours cost a median of $8.31 more per player per hour than off-peak (n=24).
Memberships are the other pricing model. 57 clubs publish membership prices. Taking each club's lowest standard adult monthly tier, the median is $119.50 a month (n=46), with half of clubs between $66.75 and $149.25 and a range of $30 to $459. Most clubs sell several tiers, and the top tiers, often called unlimited or all-access, commonly cost $200 a month or more.
How players book
We identified the booking system for 67 of the 119 operating clubs.
Playtomic, the Madrid-based booking app, is the single most common platform. Many clubs use their own or a branded app instead, and Playbypoint and CourtReserve account for most of the rest.
Chains and independents
38 of the 119 operating clubs (32%) belong to a brand with more than one location. Brands with two or more locations in our directory include Conquer Padel (5), Bay Padel (4), Padel Haus (3), PATL (2), Padel39 (2), Sensa Padel (2). The other 81 are single-site clubs.
The opening pipeline
34 clubs were listed as opening soon when we last checked, led by Los Angeles (4), Columbus (3), New York City (3), Charlotte and Raleigh (2), Miami (2). 14 of them publish a target year: 9 say 2026 and 2 say 2027. Another 3 still listed a 2025 opening, a reminder that opening dates slip.
National context from other sources
These figures come from other publications, not from Valor's data, and are shown for context only. The Financial Times reported in July 2023 that the US had about 180 padel courts as of 2022 (Financial Times, "Padel power: players and investors flock to tennis's upstart rival", July 28, 2023). In October 2023 it reported that the US Padel Association forecasts there may be 30,000 courts in the US by 2030 (Financial Times, October 10, 2023). Both articles are behind a subscription.
Methodology
- Finding clubs. For each metro area we searched for padel clubs (Google-grounded search) and kept only clubs we could confirm on their own website. Each club's record lists its sources and the date they were checked. Some clubs have since confirmed or corrected their details directly with Valor.
- What counts. A club is a padel venue open to the public or to members. Clubs listed as opening soon are counted separately. One club that appeared under two metros was counted once. A club's state comes from its published address, so New Jersey clubs in the New York metro count toward New Jersey.
- Status. "Operating" means the club was open, or its site showed no opening-soon notice, when last checked.
- Courts. Court counts and indoor/outdoor splits are used only where the club publishes them. Missing values are left missing, never estimated.
- Prices. Each published price was converted by hand to a per-player hourly rate, with the basis recorded for every club in the dataset. Medians and ranges are reported, not averages, because published prices are uneven. Prices are as published, before any tax the club adds.
- Reproducibility. The analysis is a script run against the directory. The dataset below includes every club, its status, courts, booking platform, normalized prices and the basis for each price.
Limitations
- This is a directory of verified clubs in metro areas Valor covers, not a census. Clubs in smaller towns, private courts at residences, hotels and country clubs, and clubs that publish little online are under-counted.
- Only 69 of 119 operating clubs publish a court count, so court totals are partial.
- Prices change often and many clubs don't publish them. Clubs that publish prices may differ from those that don't.
- Opening-soon listings come from club announcements and can lag reality in either direction.
Download the data
Club-level dataset (CSV): one row per club with metro, state, status, courts, booking platform, brand, normalized peak and off-peak prices with their basis, entry-level membership, website and Valor page. Metro summary (CSV). Both are free to reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0).
How to cite
Valor Padel (Kotoh Labs LLC). State of US Padel 2026: clubs, courts, prices and booking. Valor Padel, October 2026. https://valorpadel.com/research/state-of-us-padel-2026/
Journalists and researchers can email [email protected] with questions about the data or the method. Clubs that spot an error in their own listing can correct it the same way, as described on the for clubs page.
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