Work out what a trip will cost - accommodation, food, transport, activities and one-off costs - as a total, per person and per day, in whatever currency you like.
Fill in your rough daily costs and the calculator works out the total for the trip, per person and per day. Pick whichever currency symbol suits your trip - the maths is the same either way.
Trip budgets fall apart when they only account for the big-ticket items. This calculator splits your spending into the categories that actually add up over a trip: accommodation, food, local transport and activities, each multiplied out by the number of travellers, nights and days you enter, plus a lump sum for one-off costs such as flights, kit or travel insurance. A contingency buffer - 10–15% is a sensible default - covers the coffee, taxi and souvenir spending that never makes it into a spreadsheet but always happens anyway.
The tool is deliberately currency-agnostic: choose whichever symbol matches your trip and enter figures in that currency throughout. It will not convert between currencies for you - for that, use the currency converter alongside it to translate home-currency prices into local ones (or the other way round) before you plug in your numbers.
A few tips for more accurate estimates: accommodation and local transport are usually shared costs, so enter them as a household total rather than per person; food and activities are usually per-person costs, so enter a realistic daily figure for one traveller. If your trip mixes a few nights in an expensive city with a cheaper region afterwards, it is often more accurate to run the calculator twice - once per leg - and add the totals together, rather than trying to average the whole trip into one set of numbers.
Estimates only. Real costs vary hugely by destination, season and travel style. Use this to sanity-check a plan, not as a quote.
Working out how to get there is often the biggest single cost. Compare the options in bus vs train: which to choose, or see how far a modest budget stretches with slow travel on a budget.
This tool gives indicative estimates for planning purposes. Actual prices, rates and times vary – always double-check with an official source before you travel.