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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Hawaii, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 10 of 233 · rank 2 among US state destinations

AI models put Hawaii, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 22.6% of answers, rank 10 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as warm weather: 56.1%, +33.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −1.9 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Hawaii, 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
Claude21.6%
ChatGPT17.1%
Gemini23.0%
Grok29.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 524.2%
Claude Sonnet 517.9%
Claude Haiku 4.522.6%
GPT-5.6 Terra19.4%
GPT-5.6 Luna14.7%
Gemini 3.8 Flash23.0%
Grok 4.629.0%

Web search and effort

Hawaii, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Hawaii, 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 off21.7%23.6%
Normal vs lowest effort22.0%23.3%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Hawaii, 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
Warm WeatherMild WeatherLow RainCool Weather
Change+33.5+20.2−4.8−22.6

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleFamilySolo
Change+32.6+15.1−14.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WinterSummerSpringFall
Change+31.2−1.0−11.3−11.8

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursAt most two connectionsRoad tripRequires a flight
Change+24.1+7.0−5.1−8.1

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureRelaxationExoticWorkcationCultural
Change+19.9+17.1+10.9−17.4−17.6

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+8.1+0.8+0.2

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionOverrated
Change+2.6−20.1−22.6

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Maui233
Honolulu128
Kauai91
Hawaii52
Oahu43
Big Island34
Kauaʻi20
Kailua-Kona19
Oʻahu16
Honolulu, Oahu15
Hawaiʻi Island11
Kahului10
Kona8
Island of Hawaii7
Lihue6

Hawaii, 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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