The Cheapest NFL Away Game Cities in 2026: All-In Trip Cost for All 32 Markets

The formula: estimated average ticket plus two times the median nightly hotel rate for each market. Every team's home city is ranked on that number.

Phoenix, Jacksonville, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Indianapolis sit at the top because both cost inputs point the same direction at once. Most cities get one or the other. These five get both.

Phoenix is the floor. Cardinals tickets average $256, already in the lower third of the league. The hotel median is $75 per night, which is not a budget-motel figure; it is the market median. Two nights runs $150. The whole weekend lands at $406, which is less than the average ticket price alone in 12 other NFL cities.

Jacksonville adds only $84 to that total. Jaguars tickets average $238, second-cheapest in the league, and Jacksonville hotels median $126 per night. At $490 derived, this is the obvious pick for any fan whose team travels to Florida.

Atlanta and New Orleans are the Sun Belt's mid-tier value leaders. Falcons tickets ($256) and Saints tickets ($217) are both in the bottom quarter of the league on price. Atlanta hotels run $156 per night; New Orleans runs $182. Both weekends come in under $600. Neither city is a budget destination in the traditional sense, but paired with cheap tickets, both clear the threshold comfortably.

Indianapolis earns the fifth slot on infrastructure, not geography. Colts tickets are middle-of-the-league at $262, but Indianapolis has heavy convention-hotel supply that keeps medians at $165 per night even on football weekends. The $592 derived total makes it the strongest non-Sun Belt option in the top half of the ranking.

The New York Jets have the cheapest average ticket in the NFL. A Jets away weekend is the 24th most expensive trip in the league.

New York hotels median $396 per night. Two nights of lodging runs $792 before a single ticket is purchased. The cheapest ticket in the league cannot offset a hotel market that costs more per night than an entire Cardinals weekend.

Tennessee is the less obvious version of the same trap. Titans tickets at $199 look affordable. Nashville hotels median $380 per night, nearly matching New York. The derived total is $959, ranking 25th in the league. Nashville's hotel market has moved into a tier that its sports ticket prices have not caught up with, and that gap punishes fans who plan by face value.

Cleveland repeats the pattern: $166 average ticket, $366 per night hotel, $898 total. The Browns rank 22nd on trip cost despite having the second-cheapest ticket in the league.

The decision rule this produces: before you book based on what tickets cost, check what two nights of hotels costs. That number will move your derived total more than the ticket price in more than half of the 32 markets.

Phoenix at $75 per night and New York at $396 per night represent a $321 nightly gap. Over two nights, that is $642 in additional cost before team or ticket enters the equation. That single variable explains most of the distance between the top and bottom of this ranking.

The $321 spread between Phoenix and New York hotel markets produces more trip-cost difference than any other single variable in this ranking. It dwarfs even the $403 spread between the cheapest and most expensive average ticket.

Every city in the top 10 by derived total has a hotel median under $200 per night. Every city in the bottom 10 has a hotel median above $275 per night, with one exception: Philadelphia's Eagles charge $530 for the average ticket and still carry $286 hotels, which is how a trip ends up at $1,102.

Green Bay shows the lever working in the other direction. Packers tickets are expensive at $401, which on a ticket-only list drops the city near the bottom of the affordable tier. But Green Bay hotels median $127 per night, the second-lowest figure for any NFL market after Phoenix. The weekend total is $655, good for 11th in the league. The hotel saves a trip that the ticket price would have written off.

Las Vegas inverts the same math. Raiders tickets at $478 are fifth-most expensive in the league. Vegas hotels at $135 per night are among the cheapest large-market rates in the country. The $748 derived total ranks Las Vegas 14th (expensive, but not where a $478 ticket would normally send it).

The hotel rate is not a secondary consideration. It is the primary sort key for roughly half the league.

Ticket prices are SportCation's 2026 NFL estimates based on 2024-2025 team averages from The Action Network, Ticketmaster, and Statista, adjusted forward by 3%. These are estimates, labeled as such (not live secondary-market listings or face-value guarantees). Hotel medians come from our hotel pricing data updated June 1, 2026, reflecting median nightly rates near each team's stadium. The derived total formula is: average ticket plus (hotel median multiplied by 2 nights). Flight costs are not included; that variable is trip-specific.

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