Budget Your Trip: How Does It Work?

It's quite simple, actually. The average daily costs for all of the cities and countries around the world come from other travelers.

Here's how it works:

1. Travelers sign up and create a budget. They enter their travel expenses by category and location, and then view charts and graphs of their budget.
2. The expenses are then anonymously combined with expenses from other travelers. All of the expenses for each location are then computed using fancy math and statistics. Those numbers are then broken down by budget type and category, and displayed for everyone to see as average daily costs for each city.

We also systematically collect pricing data from major travel companies such as Kayak, TourRadar, Viator, HostelWorld, and others to help showcase realistic travel prices for visitors.

These average costs can then be used by travelers as a starting point and a guideline to determine their own travel budgets. While everyone can and will spend a different amount of money each time they travel, it helps to know roughly how much everything costs in a foreign country before arrival. After all, lunch in Laos is a lot cheaper than London. Knowing the relative travel prices between countries can help everyone get the most out of their travel budgets.

It's like a Wiki for travel costs.

For example, here are average daily costs for Paris calculated from many different trips. Or, search for a destination here.

Read more: How the travel cost numbers are calculated.

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You can also sign up and enter your own expenses. Then you'll be contributing to the average costs and help other travelers. Of course, you will also get to organize your budget and see charts, graphs, and tables of your trip finances.