Trip Budget Calculator

What this assumes

• Nothing here is a daily rate we invented. Every figure is read out of the cost tables the itineraries publish, and each one names the guides it used, so any line can be checked on the page it came from.
• Two people sharing. That is how the guides are costed, so rooms work out as one per two travellers — a solo traveller pays for a whole room, not half of one. Children count the same as adults: the guides don't record child pricing, and a discount we invented wouldn't be worth having.
• Cities and regions are costed from their own guides where we have them. Forty-six cities and eight regions — Goa, Kerala, Ladakh and the like — have itineraries of their own, and picking one uses those rather than the country average: Tokyo is not priced like rural Japan, and Goa is not priced like India. Every other city falls back to its country's guides, which is the closest honest answer; the tiles under the figure name whichever ones were read.
• The travel-style sliders are not markups. Each moves one line within the range the comparable itineraries actually span — the cheaper third, the middle, the dearer third.
• Flight fares are typical, not quotes. They are what a route costs in that month, one way per hop, and the chain out and back is what makes up the return. A fare marked ≈ was taken from the opposite direction, because the data has nothing that way round.
• Overland hops are yours to price. We have no fares for crossing a border by road, so that box starts empty. The guides' own transport lines pay for getting around inside a country, not for getting between two. The road option is withdrawn rather than left to be picked where a land border is shut — Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, Belarus and Ukraine — and where there is no land route at all, which is a question about landmasses rather than borders: Panama and Colombia touch, and the Darién Gap has no road through it.
• Excluding visas, insurance and anything you buy. Flights are excluded from every guide's own budget too, which is why they are added separately here.