  The Hubble tension cast a blight on the standard cosmology. As a possible
attitude to the problem, the local variation of the expansion rate in an
inhomogeneous cosmology has been proposed where the spatial averaging over a
finite domain was introduced in order to construct local Friedmann spacetime.
However, it is not clear that the concept of the spatial averaging itself is
gauge invariant or not. Namely the conclusion obtained by the averaging in a
particular gauge is physically meaningful or not. In this paper we address this
question, namely the gauge invariance of the spatial averaging in cosmology .
We show that the answer is positive by studying the spatial average in the
gauge-invariant cosmological perturbation theory.
