Every year, a bunch of popular travel websites put together their “top”, “must”, or “can’t miss” destinations for the year. We visited all of our favorite websites:

We took the data from their yearly favorites lists, since 2010, and compiled all of that information into one simple map.

We ended up with over 400 different cities and countries from these nine different publications. We used a weighted average that took into account the average rank for a city and the number of times it was mentioned by a publication. For example, Paris is mentioned 19 times through these nine publications from the years 2010 to 2018. This is quite a few mentions, relatively, and earns the City of Lights 2nd place, beat out only by Rome.

A list of the top 20 cities and countries, from 2010-2018, can be found below the map.

Interact with the map! Zoom, move, click, and hover.

How to use the map

Interact with the map! Zoom, move, click, and hover!

Rank – The city or country rank versus all of the other mentioned cities and countries

Mentions – The number of times the city or country appeared in destination lists

Average Rank

–Countries – The average rank of all the cities within that country

–Cities – The average rank of that city versus all other cities

Country rank: Low -> High

City rank: Low -> High

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Destination Breakdown

Top-Rated Cities:

Just want to find the top cities in the world, according to all of the top travel publications? Here are the top twenty:

Rome, Italy Paris, France London, United Kingdom New York City, United States Barcelona, Spain Florence, Italy Istanbul, Turkey Bangkok, Thailand Cape Town, South Africa Kyoto, Japan Sydney, Australia Siem Reap, Cambodia Charleston, United States Prague, Czech Republic Tokyo, Japan Chiang Mai, Thailand Hong Kong, China Marrakech, Morocco Singapore, Singapore San Francisco, United States

Top Countries by City Rank:

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Here are the top twenty countries. We ranked each country by the average rank of all the cities within each country.