About

Every group holiday starts the same way: a chat thread that goes nowhere. Someone wants a beach, someone wants a city, one person's budget is a third of everyone else's, and the loudest opinion wins.

I built Where Next after watching my own family go through this every year: weeks of back and forth, then someone quietly unhappy with wherever we landed. The fix was to stop talking. Everyone answers the same quiz alone, and the answers settle it instead of the group chat.

Eight questions, two minutes a person, no signup. Out comes the trip that actually fits the group.

Kids who can't read yet can play too. The quiz reads each question aloud, and the answers are pictures.

I don't sell or share anything you enter, and there's no advertising or tracking. The privacy page has the full detail.

This is one person's project and the data comes with no warranty, so check anything that matters before you book.

Where the facts come from

Almost nothing on a destination page is my own knowledge. Each line says what the source gives, and links to it.

• Open-Meteo, for average temperatures and rainfall, month by month.
• Frankfurter, for the currency rates behind the rough conversion on each page.
• The Foreign Office, for whether it advises against travel to a country.
• Wikidata, for currency, language, driving side, mains voltage and socket letters.
• Wikipedia, for what each plug type is, and the read-more link on every destination.
• Nager.Date, for public holidays.
• The IANA time zone database, for which clock a place keeps.

Every destination gets its own poster in one house style, tuned for light and dark mode. Most of the ones you can browse are made with an image model; the rest are flat vector art the site's own code draws. Neither kind is a photograph.

Wikipedia's text is CC BY-SA and Wikidata is CC0. The travel advice is Crown copyright, used under the Open Government Licence.

Every language here other than English was translated by a machine. If a sentence reads oddly in yours, tell me.

How this site is made

Some of what you read here was made by a machine, and it isn't obvious from looking. The questions and answers on a destination page aren't written at all: they're assembled from figures already printed further up, so they can't claim anything the page doesn't. The month-by-month climate figures work the same way, from averages rather than a forecast.

I wrote the plug and socket notes by hand, along with the rest of the site's furniture: this page, the warnings, the labels on every chart. The destination write-ups have been checked a place at a time, all 624 of them, against the sources above.

Travel warnings come from the UK Foreign Office, and I check them every Monday. Each one carries two dates: when the Foreign Office last updated its advice, and when I last confirmed it. Those two drift apart, because they publish whenever they like and I only look once a week. If the gap looks wide, read their page rather than mine. It's linked from every warning. Currency rates are refreshed weekly too, and a rate that has gone stale is dropped rather than shown.

Curious what’s in the pool? Browse all destinations the quiz can pick from, each with its best travel window and budget level.