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How this works

Read this once and you will understand the whole system. It takes about three minutes, and the moving example below does most of the explaining.

1What the product actually does

Every other travel site makes you choose a destination and then shows you a price. This one goes the other way: you say when you can travel and what weather you want, and it finds the destination. It searches many suppliers at once, scores each price against months of history for that exact route, and puts the best answer first.

2Coconuts — the score everything is ranked by

Every place carries a coconut score: our rating out of 100 for how pleasant it will actually be outside, shown as one to five Coconuts. It is the number the whole product sorts on.

It is not a temperature. That is the entire reason it is a coconut and not a number on its own — a "78" sitting next to a column of degrees gets read as 78 degrees. A coconut cannot be mistaken for one. The score blends warmth, rain, sun hours and wind, so a dry still 25°C day scores higher than a humid 34°C one, and a place can be hot and still score badly.

20
Poor Washout, or too hot/cold to enjoy outside.
47
Mixed Usable, but pack for rain or heat.
62
Decent Fine, with some cloud or a shower.
77
Good Pleasant throughout, maybe one iffy afternoon.
92
Excellent Comfortable and dry. Outside all day.

You set the bar yourself. At least rules a place out entirely; ideally only decides what comes first, and nothing is ever hidden for missing it. The 14-day grid colours one square per day on the same scale, so you can scan across and find the good run of days rather than trusting a single average.

3Watch one search happen

The rest of this page describes the product. This shows it: one real search, from the first question to the priced result.

See how it works

Real trips, found on the last scan. Same 4 sources, same ranking, same everything a live search does.

Optional — just say it Somewhere warm, from Manchester or Edmonton, around Thu 10 Sept, for 7–10 nights, for 2 adults — and I want the weather to actually be good
Search
FromManchester or Edmonton Goinganywhere warm WhenThu 10 Sept → Sun 20 Sept How long7–10 nights Who2 adults TripFlight + hotel Weather95+ coconuts
Hotel contracts Hotel comparison Fare history Live flight search

Those are real trips from the last scan. Run it live for today’s prices and what is actually still available — we’ll fill this search in for you, and you can change anything.

A live search checks every source again for today’s prices and availability — it takes about two minutes, and it counts against your daily allowance.

4Memberships

Finding where to go is free and unlimited for everyone, signed in or not. It reads our own forecast table and costs us nothing. Pricing a trip needs an account, because it queries every airline and hotel source live for you, and how many you get depends on your plan. Plans, prices and allowances all live on the membership page, and every one of them is read from a single definition, so they can't disagree with what the checkout charges.