Simulator · Three styles, one honest total

Budget Simulator

Pick a place, the days, the people and a travel style, add the fixed items like flights, permits and a ship, and the simulator gives a total with the split between lodging, food, transport, guides and activities, and the same trip in the other two styles.

Every place page carries a per-day band for three styles: backpack, comfort and luxury. The bands are our estimates for 2026 in euros and include lodging, food, local transport, guides and activities. Flights, permits with fixed prices, ships and insurance are entered separately because they do not scale with days.

Simulators

One place, one month, one calendarJourney SimulatorChoose a place, a month, the days you have and how you travel. The simulator lays out a day-by-day timeline with temperatures, daylight, sleeping altitude, effort and cost, and flags the days where the model gets nervous. Open

What the month does to the placeClimate SimulatorHighs, lows and rain days for all twelve months of any place, with a feels-like line, a clothing verdict and a side-by-side comparison of up to three places for the month you can travel. Open

Sunrise, sunset and the polar casesDaylight SimulatorAny latitude, any date: sunrise, sunset, day length, civil twilight and the golden hours, drawn as an arc. It knows about the midnight sun and the polar night, and it shows how fast the day changes around your dates. Open

The Simulation Brief

One place, one simulator, one honest number. Every second Sunday.

No newsletter theatre. A short e-mail with the place we modelled, what the model said and what the ground said back.