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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Pacific Northwest, USA in AI travel recommendations

US region · overall rank 126 of 233 · rank 6 among US region destinations

AI models put Pacific Northwest, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 0.8% of answers, rank 126 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 5.4%, +4.7 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.4 points against web search off.

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

By platform

PlatformScore
Claude1.1%
ChatGPT1.6%
Gemini0.0%
Grok0.4%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 50.4%
Claude Haiku 4.52.8%
GPT-5.6 Terra2.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna1.2%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.60.4%

Web search and effort

Pacific Northwest, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Pacific Northwest, 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 off0.6%1.0%
Normal vs lowest effort0.7%0.9%

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
Change+4.7

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerFallSpring
Change+2.9+0.2−0.8

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool Weather
Change+2.6

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Adventure
Change+2.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne week
Change+1.40.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Solo
Change+1.3

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change+0.1

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Pacific Northwest20
Pacific Northwest Coast2
Cascade Range1
Highway 1011
Oregon Coast and Olympic Peninsula1
Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon)1
Pacific Northwest Coast (Washington/Oregon)1
Pacific Northwest Coastal Loop1
Pacific Northwest Loop (North Cascades to Oregon Coast)1

Pacific Northwest, 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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