About Destination Explorer

Destination Explorer helps you find cities that fit your preferred weather, budget and passport. Compare destinations on a map, check their monthly climate, narrow the list with filters and build a shortlist for a trip or a longer stay.

Weather summaries use Open-Meteo historical ERA5 data averaged across multiple completed years. Temperature values average how warm or cold whole days feel. Rainfall, rainy days and sunshine summarize typical conditions for each month.

Each month receives a score from 0 to 10 based on perceived temperature, with a penalty for rain. Both the amount of rain and how often it rains affect the score. Higher scores indicate more comfortable conditions according to the app’s model. The green area in each city’s chart shows this score; the background colors show temperature. Sunshine is displayed for comparison but does not affect the score.

Climate fit is the average monthly score converted to a percentage: an average score of 7.2 means 72% climate fit. It uses your selected months, or the whole year if no months are selected. This gives you a consistent way to compare destinations using the app’s weather model.

Beach scoring shifts the temperature comfort curve 4°C warmer, favoring warmer conditions than the standard score. Rain penalties still apply. The selected scoring mode is used throughout the explorer, including filtering, climate fit and city comparisons. The score focuses on air temperature and rainfall.

Open Climate in the toolbar and select your months, or click months directly on a city card. Every selected month must meet the minimum monthly score you set. Unselected months fade on the cards so your chosen period is easier to compare. Leave all months unselected to skip monthly filtering.

The dollar signs show a relative rent-cost level, from low to very high. Use them as a broad comparison; actual accommodation prices and total travel budgets vary. Gray dollar signs indicate that cost data is unavailable.

Visa indicators support American, Antiguan and Barbudan, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Belarusian, British, Canadian, Dominican (Dominica), Egyptian, French, German, Grenadian, Indian, Israeli, Italian, Japanese, Jordanian, Kazakh, Kittitian and Nevisian, Nauruan, Ni-Vanuatu, Pakistani, Russian, Saint Lucian, Santomean (São Tomé and Príncipe), Serbian, and Turkish ordinary passports. Choose your citizenship in Places to update the indicators. Open an indicator for the available requirement, permitted stay, notes and source links. The data is prepared from Wikipedia with manual overrides; confirm current requirements with official sources before booking.

Use the bookmark button on a city card to add it to your shortlist, then switch from All to Shortlist in the toolbar. The comparison button adds a city to a separate comparison selection. Once at least two cities are selected, open Compare cities to compare their average and monthly temperatures, scores, rainfall, rainy days and sunshine side by side.

The Visa Approvals tool shows official visa issuance and refusal statistics. Schengen figures are grouped by the country where applications were submitted, while the other visa statistics use nationality. Select a country to explore the available rates, counts and sources.