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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

New York, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 41 of 233 · rank 15 among US state destinations

AI models put New York, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 6.7% of answers, rank 41 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as fall: 22.8%, +16.1 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +3.6 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend New York, 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

PlatformScore
Claude5.4%
ChatGPT4.4%
Gemini4.8%
Grok12.3%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 53.6%
Claude Sonnet 55.2%
Claude Haiku 4.57.5%
GPT-5.6 Terra4.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna4.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash4.8%
Grok 4.612.3%

Web search and effort

New York, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

New York, 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 off8.5%4.9%
Normal vs lowest effort6.0%7.4%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. New York, 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.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallWinterSummerSpring
Change+16.1−1.5−2.5−6.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendOne weekTwo weeks
Change+14.0−0.6−4.8

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?UnderratedThe plain questionOverrated
Change+0.5−0.5−4.2−6.7

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WorkcationExoticAdventureRelaxation
Change−0.5−3.8−6.4−6.4

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool Weather
Change−3.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightRoad tripAt most two connections
Change−3.2−5.7−6.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilyCoupleSolo
Change−3.6−4.6−4.6

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
New York City71
Hudson Valley33
Lake Placid21
Times Square16
Finger Lakes13
Adirondacks11
Niagara Falls9
Adirondack Mountains3
Buffalo2
The Hamptons2
Times Square, New York City2
Aurora, Finger Lakes1
Catskill Mountains1
Hudson1
New York City and the Hudson Valley1

New York, 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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