Trip Planner
Find the best days to travel with weather-based day scoring
Plan Your Trip
Search by city to get per-day scores, or by country to compare cities
Plan by use case
- Beach Holiday Weather PlannerEnter a coastal city and your dates, up to 20 days, and the planner scores every day and marks the beach days.
- City Break Weather PlannerEnter the city and your dates, up to 20 days, and the planner scores each day for being out and about.
- Hiking Weather PlannerEnter a city with trails nearby and your dates, up to 20 days, and the planner scores every day for being outdoors.
How the Trip Planner score works
Enter a city or a whole country and your travel dates, up to 20 days. If your trip ends within the next 15 days, the planner uses the live hourly forecast. If it is further away, it uses 20 years of climate data for those dates instead and labels the result as an estimate, not a forecast.
Every day gets a score from 1 to 10. It starts at 10 and loses points for weather that spoils a day out. A chance of rain above 20% costs up to 5 points, each rainy daytime hour costs 0.4, each millimetre of rain 0.15 (at most 3 points for the rain amount), and a thunderstorm costs 2. Wind above 20 km/h costs up to 2 points. Heat above 32 °C or cold below 5 °C costs 1 point; above 38 °C or below 0 °C it costs 2. A day whose icon shows rain never scores above 8.4.
Excellent is 8.5–10, good 7–8.4, fair 5–6.9 and poor below 5. A good day scores 7 or more: little rain, light wind and comfortable temperatures. For each day you also see the morning, afternoon and evening, the activity that suits the weather best and a short packing list.
Example: Barcelona through the year
What would a typical day in Barcelona score in each month? This is the same calculation the planner makes for trips more than 15 days away: the 2006–2025 averages, with the chance of rain taken as the average number of rainy days divided by 30.
| Month | Average high | Chance of rain | Day score |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13°C (55°F) | 30% | 8.9 |
| February | 14°C (56°F) | 30% | 8.9 |
| March | 16°C (60°F) | 36% | 8.6 |
| April | 18°C (64°F) | 40% | 8.4 |
| May | 21°C (70°F) | 38% | 8.5 |
| June | 25°C (77°F) | 31% | 8.9 |
| July | 28°C (82°F) | 28% | 9.1 |
| August | 28°C (82°F) | 36% | 8.6 |
| September | 24°C (76°F) | 50% | 7.8 |
| October | 21°C (70°F) | 46% | 8 |
| November | 16°C (62°F) | 38% | 8.5 |
| December | 14°C (56°F) | 30% | 8.9 |
July scores best (9.1) and September lowest (7.8). The difference comes from rain alone: the temperatures never reach a level that costs points.
What people use it for
- City breaks: Put walking tours and markets on the driest days and keep museums for the wet ones.
- Beach trips: The planner only suggests the beach on warm, dry days in coastal cities.
- Hiking: Thunder and strong wind pull the score down quickly, so long trails go on the calm days.
FAQ
How far ahead can I plan a trip?
You can pick any dates. Up to 15 days ahead you get the live forecast; for later trips the planner shows an estimate from 20 years of climate data for the same dates.
What does the day score mean?
It rates from 1 to 10 how good the weather is for being outside: 8.5–10 is excellent, 7–8.4 good, 5–6.9 fair and below 5 poor.
Is a 40% chance of rain a bad day?
Not on its own. It costs about 1.6 points, so the day can still be good. If the forecast also shows several rainy hours or heavy rain, the score falls further.
Can I plan a trip to a whole country?
Yes. Switch to the country mode to compare its cities for your dates, then open one city for the day-by-day plan.
How many days can one trip have?
Up to 20 days in one plan.