AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Texas, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 43 of 233 · rank 16 among US state destinations

AI models put Texas, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 6.3% of answers, rank 43 overall. It does best when the question specifies transport as road trip: 42.7%, +36.5 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.5 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Texas, 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	6.3%
ChatGPT	4.8%
Gemini	6.8%
Grok	7.1%

By model

Model	Score
Claude Opus 5	5.2%
Claude Sonnet 5	6.0%
Claude Haiku 4.5	7.9%
GPT-5.6 Terra	4.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna	4.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash	6.8%
Grok 4.6	7.1%

Web search and effort

Texas, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Texas, 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	6.0%	6.5%
Normal vs lowest effort	5.6%	6.9%

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	Requires a flight	Nonstop, 6–8 hours
Change	+36.5	−4.2	−6.3

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Workcation	Cultural	Relaxation	Adventure	Exotic	Digital Nomad
Change	+27.1	+8.0	−1.6	−4.2	−5.0	−6.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Spring	Fall	Winter	Summer
Change	+15.3	−3.1	−5.4	−6.0

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Weekend	Two weeks	One week
Change	+15.2	−3.1	−5.7

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Solo	Family	Couple
Change	+8.1	−2.5	−5.4

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Warm Weather	Low Rain	Mild Weather
Change	+8.0	+0.5	−5.2

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
	Where should I go?	Underrated
Change	+0.7	0.0

How the models wrote the name

Name	Mentions
Austin	70
San Antonio	33
Big Bend National Park	20
Texas Hill Country	17
Fredericksburg	10
Marfa	7
South Padre Island	5
Big Bend region	2
Frisco	2
Galveston	2
South Padre Island to Corpus Christi	2
The Texas Hill Country	2
Amarillo and Palo Duro Canyon	1
Austin to San Antonio via Hill Country	1
Big Bend	1

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