Free travel tools

Eleven tools for planning a trip, most built from our own travel data: no account, no sign-up, nothing to install. The calculators show the date their numbers were last checked, and the planners work from real shoot dates and stay lengths rather than estimates.

CurrencyFree currency converter →Live mid-market rates for the 17 currencies we actually used — yen, won, dong, baht, lek, leu, forint and dirham included. Convert either direction instantly, no sign-up.TippingFree tipping calculator →Work out the tip on any bill across 20 countries, with the service-charge rules, the local rounding and the places where the answer is nothing at all.MapPhoto map explorer →Every city we photographed, on one map, filterable by month — 6,091 photographs with the day each was shot.LightGolden hour planner →Sunrise, sunset and golden-hour times for 139 cities on any date, plus where to stand at that hour from our own notes.PlanningDays-per-city planner →Tell it the cities and the total days you have; it splits them in proportion to how long we actually stayed in each place.PackingPacking list generator →Trip length, season and climates in; a list out where every item says why it is there. Rules, not a model.SeasonsSeason tracker →Pick a month to see where we were shooting, with photo counts read from real shoot dates.VisasSchengen calculator →Check a rolling 90/180 allowance: Schengen, the UK, Albania, Turkey and Montenegro — from your own travel dates.Japan railJR Pass calculator →Build your Japan route ride by ride and see single Shinkansen tickets against the 7, 14 and 21-day JR Pass and the regional passes, with the break-even.Getting aroundRoute finder →How to get from A to B on 30 legs we cover: train, bus, ferry and flight times, fares and operators side by side, with one-stop connections.BudgetTrip cost calculator →Total and per-day cost for 20 countries by days, travellers and style, with flight ranges where we publish them and a switch to the local currency.