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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Portugal in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 1 of 233 · rank 1 among country destinations

AI models put Portugal in their top 10 recommendations in 40.3% of answers, rank 1 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as digital nomad: 100.0%, +59.7 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −4.8 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Portugal 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
Claude39.1%
ChatGPT48.8%
Gemini37.3%
Grok36.1%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 543.6%
Claude Sonnet 536.9%
Claude Haiku 4.536.9%
GPT-5.6 Terra44.0%
GPT-5.6 Luna53.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash37.3%
Grok 4.636.1%

Web search and effort

Portugal · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Portugal 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 off38.0%42.7%
Normal vs lowest effort40.8%39.9%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Portugal made the top 10 at least once for 22 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 70.9% 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.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Digital NomadWorkcationCulturalRelaxationExoticAdventure
Change+59.7+59.7+7.0+5.1−1.6−20.9

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Nonstop, 6–8 hoursRequires a flightAt most two connectionsRoad trip
Change+33.3−2.3−3.7−24.5

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Mild WeatherCool WeatherLow RainWarm Weather
Change+31.9−3.5−12.6−17.0

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSoloFamily
Change+24.1+4.8−18.6

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
One weekTwo weeksWeekend
Change+13.4+0.6−15.1

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
The plain questionWhere should I go?UnderratedOverrated
Change+11.30.0−18.5−40.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpringSummerWinter
Change+10.3+7.0−4.9−13.6

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Lisbon397
Portugal156
Madeira138
Porto120
Azores67
Algarve59
Évora41
Ponta Delgada26
Funchal, Madeira19
Douro Valley18
São Miguel18
Funchal17
The Azores17
São Miguel, Azores14
Faro12

Portugal

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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