Travel Budget Planner
The flight price is the number everyone fixates on, but food, tours, and the little extras usually add up to more. List it all out and you'll know what the trip really costs before you commit.
Plan the whole trip budget
Flights and a hotel are just the start. Add your daily food, the tours and tickets, and a buffer for the stuff you forget, and you'll see the real number — plus what you're spending a day.
Total budget
$2,385
Everything added up for the trip
Average per day
$341
Total spread across your days away
Food across the trip
$385
Daily food times the number of days
Where trip budgets go wrong
People book the flight, book the hotel, and call it a budget. Then a week away quietly racks up $55 a day in food, a couple hundred in tours, and another chunk in taxis and tips that never made the plan.
Say flights run $650, lodging $900, food $55 a day for seven days, $300 in activities, and $150 in extras. That's about $2,385 all in — roughly $340 a day, not the "$1,550 for flights and hotel" you might have quoted yourself.
Seeing the daily figure is the useful part. If $340 a day feels steep, you can trim the tours or shorten the trip and watch the number move, instead of finding out on the credit card statement.
Frequently asked questions
What should go in the miscellaneous line?
The stuff that never fits a category: airport snacks, tips, a SIM card, souvenirs, the umbrella you buy because it rains. A hundred bucks or so for a week-long trip usually covers the small surprises that add up.
Why enter food per day instead of a total?
Because a trip that runs a day longer costs a day more in meals, and thinking per day makes that obvious. The tool multiplies your daily figure by the number of days, so stretching a five-day trip to seven updates the food line for you.
What does the daily average tell me?
It spreads the entire budget, flights and all, across your days away. It's a quick gut check — if a long weekend is costing $400 a day, you can see at a glance whether that fits before you book anything.
Should lodging be per night or total?
Total, here. Enter the full cost of your stay so it isn't affected by the day count, then let the food line handle the per-day math. That keeps a fixed Airbnb price separate from the meals that scale with your trip length.
How much buffer is smart?
Many travelers pad the total by 10 to 15 percent for currency swings, price differences on the ground, and the plans that change once you arrive. Round the whole budget up and you're far less likely to come home to a surprise on the card.
Can I use this for a group trip?
Put in the shared costs, flights, lodging, activities, and it'll give you the group total and a daily figure. To get a per-person number, divide the total by how many people are splitting it.