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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Arizona, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 11 of 233 · rank 3 among US state destinations

AI models put Arizona, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 18.3% of answers, rank 11 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as low rain: 64.6%, +46.3 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.3 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Arizona, USA in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

This destination in the other indexes: Source Control · Itinerary Share

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude16.9%
ChatGPT13.9%
Gemini27.4%
Grok15.1%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 514.3%
Claude Sonnet 518.3%
Claude Haiku 4.518.3%
GPT-5.6 Terra15.1%
GPT-5.6 Luna12.7%
Gemini 3.8 Flash27.4%
Grok 4.615.1%

Web search and effort

Arizona, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Arizona, USA with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off18.1%18.5%
Normal vs lowest effort17.1%19.5%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Arizona, USA made the top 10 at least once for 2 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 20.0% of the repeats on average.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low RainWarm WeatherMild WeatherCool Weather
Change+46.3−1.1−8.8−10.8

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripAt most two connectionsRequires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hours
Change+42.3+7.9+0.8−17.4

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
RelaxationAdventureExoticCultural
Change+34.6−2.2−4.0−4.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SpringWinterFallSummer
Change+22.2+2.1−0.1−13.5

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendTwo weeksOne week
Change+17.1+5.0−5.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamilyCouple
Change+14.6+2.8−8.7

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?UnderratedThe plain questionOverrated
Change+2.0−5.8−17.3−18.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Sedona236
Tucson65
Phoenix47
Scottsdale37
Grand Canyon National Park30
Yuma16
Page13
Arizona11
Grand Canyon8
Phoenix/Scottsdale4
Sonoran Desert4
Flagstaff3
Grand Canyon South Rim3
Phoenix and Scottsdale3
Tucson and the Sonoran Desert3

Arizona, USA

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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