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Trip costs are indicative planning budgets, not booking quotes. Accommodation and daily spending are currently estimated. Flight prices may be cached or modelled; final prices and availability must be confirmed with the booking provider. Deal scores are shown only where sufficient measured fare history is available.
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“Prime time” is our seasonal rating: a score of at least 80%, fewer than 13 rainy days, and daytime highs of 18–32°C (or the local snow season). The three best months rank each destination separately. The sea filter requires a recorded monthly average of at least 19°C; this is a preference threshold, not a claim that swimming is safe.
| Data | Class | Source / model | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departure airports | directory | OurAirports (public domain) | 2026-09-20 | 2,965 searchable airports in 228 countries and territories, with route data to at least one supported destination. |
| Expanded departure routes | historical → derived | OpenFlights (ODbL) with existing route references | 2026-09-20 | Historical route topology; flight times, connections and prices are estimates. Verify current schedules before booking. |
| Airports | real | OurAirports (public domain) | 2026-09-03 | 317 airports serving the catalogue |
| Routes & reachability | real → derived | OpenFlights routes.dat (ODbL, historical 2014) + air.travel 2026 route reference compiled from public airline timetables (catalogue subset) | 2026-09-03 | 16480 route edges, 87 hubs for connections |
| Climate | real → derived | Open-Meteo Historical Weather (ERA5) 2023-2025 daily; Marine API sea surface temperature 2023-2025 for the 154 coastal destinations that have one | 2026-09-03 | 268 destinations · monthly highs, lows, rainy days (a day with at least 1 mm of precipitation, the WMO threshold), sea temperature |
| Flight fares · measured | cached | Flight.Deals — median of a route's real monthly minimum fares (upstream: travelpayouts) | 2026-09-01 | 1610 measured routes from 42 origins · min 4 months of observation for a baseline |
| Flight fares · cached | cached | Aviasales price cache via Travelpayouts Data API | 2026-09-03 | 20425 routes from 266 origins · 119,700 recently quoted fares · a snapshot, not a baseline, so no deal score |
| Flight fares · modelled | estimate · ±22% typical | fare-prior-v3 (region-aware, cross-validated on held-out routes) | 2026-09-01 | Fitted on 67,458 observed monthly fares across 22,033 routes · on routes held out of the fit, median error 21.6%, within 25% for 56.7% of them |
| Deal score | cached | Flight.Deals — percentile of this route-month drop across their measured board | 2026-09-01 | Ranked against 1722 measured fares · no baseline, no score |
| Entry requirements | cached | passport-index-data (MIT), continuation of ilyankou/passport-index-dataset | 2026-09-03 | 199 passports · dataset 2026-03 |
| Exchange rates | cached | Frankfurter (ECB reference rates) | 2026-09-19 | ECB reference, 2026-09-18 |
| Photographs | real | Wikimedia Commons (geotagged within 6 km of the place; CC0, public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA), Unsplash and Pexels via their APIs, Flickr (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 only) | 2026-09-06 | 267 destinations, one photograph each · 167 Wikimedia Commons · 68 Pexels · 28 Unsplash · 4 Flickr · author and licence under every image |
| Daylight & clock | derived | NOAA sunrise equation on the 15th of the month; IANA time-zone tables via Intl | — | Sunrise, sunset and hours of daylight, within about five minutes; the clock difference from your origin for that month, half-hour zones included; midnight sun and polar night stated in words |
| Hotel nightly rate | estimate | air.travel estimates by destination, season and travel style | — | Indicative accommodation costs for trip planning. Live hotel prices are not currently available. |
| Daily local spend | estimate | air.travel estimates by travel style: budget, mid-range or comfort | — | Estimated food, local transport and activities; excludes accommodation and flights |
| Destination text | editorial | Written and reviewed by air.travel | 2026-09 | 268 of 268 destinations |