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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Washington, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 37 of 233 · rank 13 among US state destinations

AI models put Washington, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 7.3% of answers, rank 37 overall. It does best when the question specifies climate as cool weather: 33.5%, +26.3 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.8 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Washington, 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
Claude4.0%
ChatGPT11.3%
Gemini6.8%
Grok7.1%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 53.6%
Claude Sonnet 53.2%
Claude Haiku 4.55.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra13.1%
GPT-5.6 Luna9.5%
Gemini 3.8 Flash6.8%
Grok 4.67.1%

Web search and effort

Washington, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Washington, 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 off7.7%6.9%
Normal vs lowest effort7.7%6.8%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Washington, 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 20.0% 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.

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool WeatherMild WeatherLow Rain
Change+26.3−3.6−4.5

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SummerSpringFallWinter
Change+20.8+3.4+1.4−5.4

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripAt most two connectionsRequires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hours
Change+16.3+7.3−3.6−7.3

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
AdventureRelaxationExoticCulturalWorkcation
Change+8.0+5.0−4.0−4.2−5.2

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FamilySoloCouple
Change+6.4+4.2−7.3

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendOne weekTwo weeks
Change+5.3+5.0+1.8

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?The plain questionUnderrated
Change+0.9−6.7−7.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Seattle43
San Juan Islands35
Olympic Peninsula34
Leavenworth26
Olympic National Park21
Olympic Peninsula Loop7
Skagit Valley5
Mount Rainier National Park4
Columbia River Gorge3
North Cascades National Park3
Hoh Rain Forest2
Olympic Peninsula and Washington Coast2
San Juan Island2
Cascade Loop1
Cascade Mountains1

Washington, 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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