AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

New Mexico, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 25 of 233 · rank 6 among US state destinations

AI models put New Mexico, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 10.3% of answers, rank 25 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 51.0%, +40.7 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −4.2 points against web search off.

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

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By platform

Platform	Score
Claude	9.4%
ChatGPT	10.5%
Gemini	12.3%
Grok	9.1%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	11.1%
Claude Sonnet 5	9.9%
Claude Haiku 4.5	7.1%
GPT-5.6 Terra	10.3%
GPT-5.6 Luna	10.7%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	12.3%
Grok 4.6	9.1%

Web search and effort

New Mexico, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

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

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Setting	Search on / normal effort	Search off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off	8.2%	12.4%
Normal vs lowest effort	9.7%	11.0%

The repeated baseline question never put this destination in its top 10, so it has no repeat figure.

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 trip	At most two connections	Requires a flight	Nonstop, 6–8 hours
Change	+40.7	+2.9	−1.7	−10.3

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Weekend	Two weeks	One week
Change	+24.5	−2.9	−3.1

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Fall	Spring	Summer	Winter
Change	+17.0	+5.3	−2.3	−6.1

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Low Rain	Warm Weather	Mild Weather	Cool Weather
Change	+10.0	+2.0	−1.3	−1.4

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Cultural	Relaxation	Exotic	Adventure
Change	+8.9	+6.2	+4.9	−9.1

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Solo	Family	Couple
Change	+7.4	+5.6	−3.9

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Where should I go?	Underrated	The plain question
Change	+1.3	−8.3	−10.3

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Santa Fe	228
Taos	31
Albuquerque	23
White Sands National Park	7
Santa Fe and Taos	4
Northern New Mexico	2
Santa Fe & Taos	2
Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico	2
Santa Fe and the Enchanted Circle	2
Albuquerque and Santa Fe	1
Albuquerque to Taos via Chimayo	1
Albuquerque–Santa Fe	1
Carlsbad Caverns	1
Chimayó	1
Gallup	1

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