Trip guides with the price attached
Know the cheap month before you book.
Real nightly hotel rates for every month in fifteen cities, day-by-day plans for the trip length you’ve got, and a five-question finder for when you don’t know where yet.
Prices checked September 2026. Fifteen cities, every month of the year.
Where is cheap this month?
Every city we have priced, ranked by what a bed costs in the month you pick. Set a nightly budget and the ones over it drop below the line.
| City | Oct 2026 | Nov 2026 | Dec 2026 | Jan 2027 | Feb 2027 | Mar 2027 | Apr 2027 | May 2027 | Jun 2027 | Jul 2027 | Aug 2027 | Sep 2027 |
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| Lisbon | $194 | $109 | $103 | $81, its cheapest month | $109 | $111 | $137 | $204 | $162 | $202 | $189 | $238 |
| Bangkok | $76, its cheapest month | $132 | $112 | $112 | $93 | $124 | $119 | $113 | $117 | $123 | $123 | $111 |
| Barcelona | $225 | $144 | $106, its cheapest month | $115 | $148 | $200 | $222 | $252 | $243 | $224 | $215 | $249 |
| Rome | $176 | $162 | $128, its cheapest month | $157 | $132 | $198 | $251 | $236 | $270 | $230 | $212 | $294 |
| London | $186 | $166 | $234 | $99, its cheapest month | $140 | $195 | $259 | $275 | $326 | $332 | $240 | $560 |
| Mexico City | $146 | $169 | $136 | $130 | $139 | $105, its cheapest month | $121 | $129 | $134 | $132 | $135 | $270 |
| Reykjavik | $240 | $184 | $175 | $153 | $213 | $182 | $150, its cheapest month | $190 | $243 | $374 | $340 | $256 |
| Paris | $302 | $186 | $204 | $209 | $199 | $207 | $269 | $281 | $288 | $257 | $184, its cheapest month | $387 |
| New York | $296 | $217 | $262 | $143, its cheapest month | $162 | $188 | $239 | $291 | $264 | $233 | $233 | $366 |
| Tokyo | $214 | $223 | $134 | $114 | $120 | $143 | $194 | $158 | $105, its cheapest month | $117 | $184 | $342 |
| San Juan | $237 | $246 | $289 | $417 | $406 | $331 | $280 | $314 | $269 | $267 | $263 | $186, its cheapest month |
| Nassau | $232, its cheapest month | $285 | $265 | $357 | $577 | $471 | $518 | $348 | $370 | $405 | $402 | $328 |
| Cancun | $403 | $389 | $443 | $374 | $356, its cheapest month | $404 | $418 | $394 | $510 | $487 | $416 | $404 |
| Montego Bay | $369, its cheapest month | $460 | $413 | $484 | $441 | $575 | $469 | $557 | $490 | $567 | $395 | $428 |
| Punta Cana | $333, its cheapest month | $524 | $448 | $513 | $397 | $477 | $360 | $389 | $367 | $352 | $342 | $367 |
Twelve months of prices
Average nightly hotel and flight cost for all twelve months, each one set against the annual average. You can see which weeks are cheap without working anything out.
Itineraries by trip length
Pick five days or ten and the nights, ferries and transfers are written for that length.
What most visitors miss
Every guide ends with hidden gems, the neighbourhood bakery or the ferry locals take instead of the tour boat. Each one gets a short note on why it’s worth the detour and how you find it.
Not sure where to go?
Five questions, about a minute. Your month, your daily budget, how long you have and the kind of place you want. You get the three cities that fit, scored on the same nightly rates the guides use.
Newest destinations
The guides we published most recently, newest first.
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Montego Bay in hurricane season, a year after Melissa
October is the cheapest month for a Montego Bay hotel, a median of $369 a night against $575 in March. Storm risk is the reason, so…
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Nassau in October costs less than half what February does
October is the cheapest month to sleep in Nassau, a median near $232 a night, and February is the dearest at $577. The first half of…
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Cancun in hurricane season costs the same as March
February is the cheapest month to sleep in Cancun at about $356 a night, June is the dearest by far, and hurricane season barely moves the…
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What San Juan’s $231 hurricane season discount costs you
A September room in San Juan runs about $190 a night, and the same room in January is more than twice that. The difference is hurricane…
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The same Punta Cana beach costs half as much in hurricane season
October is the cheapest month to sleep in Punta Cana, about $330 a night, and November the dearest at close to $520. Both of those are…
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Four hours of light in January, twenty-one in June
April is the month to book Reykjavik, a median of about $150 a night when we checked in September 2026, against more than double that in…
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Plan Bangkok around the heat and the rest gets easy
February is the month to book Bangkok, a median of about $93 a night, and it lands inside the dry cool season rather than outside it.…
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Mexico City is cheapest in the month the jacarandas flower
March is the cheapest month in Mexico City, a median of about $105 a night, and it’s also the month the jacarandas go purple over Roma.…
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A New York trip built around the weeks hotels get cheap
A New York hotel room runs about $143 a night in January and double that in October. Nothing shuts for winter here except the outdoor tables.…
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In London the bed is the trip and the fares cap at GBP 8.90
January in London runs a median $99 a night, against more than three times that in July. The big museums are free in both months, so…
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A March night in Lisbon costs $93 less than the same room in May
January beds in Lisbon run a median $81 a night. The same room in May is nearer $200, so go in March or April, when the…
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In Barcelona the ticket you booked eight weeks ago decides the trip
December in Barcelona runs a median $106 a night, and May is closer to $250. Check late February before you book anything, because Mobile World Congress…
Recently updated
Prices move, so we go back and check them. These are the guides we looked at last.

