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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Florida, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 19 of 233 · rank 4 among US state destinations

AI models put Florida, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 11.5% of answers, rank 19 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 31.7%, +20.1 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +6.6 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Florida, 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
Claude8.5%
ChatGPT7.9%
Gemini8.3%
Grok21.4%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 56.3%
Claude Sonnet 57.1%
Claude Haiku 4.511.9%
GPT-5.6 Terra8.3%
GPT-5.6 Luna7.5%
Gemini 3.8 Flash8.3%
Grok 4.621.4%

Web search and effort

Florida, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Florida, 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 off14.8%8.2%
Normal vs lowest effort11.3%11.8%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Florida, USA made the top 10 at least once for 1 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 40.0% 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.

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripAt most two connectionsRequires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hours
Change+20.1−6.8−7.2−11.5

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSpringSummerFall
Change+12.2+5.1−10.2−10.8

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Warm WeatherMild WeatherLow RainCool Weather
Change+11.7−2.7−7.9−11.5

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendOne weekTwo weeks
Change+10.8−2.1−6.2

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WorkcationCulturalRelaxationExoticAdventure
Change+9.3−0.8−1.3−4.2−10.5

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionOverratedUnderrated
Change+1.2−9.0−11.5−11.5

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySoloCouple
Change+0.6+0.2−3.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Key West102
Miami47
Orlando46
Florida Keys22
St. Augustine22
Overseas Highway12
Miami Beach8
Naples7
Walt Disney World7
Amelia Island4
Florida Keys Overseas Highway4
Panama City Beach4
Sanibel Island4
Palm Beach3
The Florida Keys3

Florida, 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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