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Explore The World,
One City at a Time
Free travel guides to 200 cities on six continents, honest city comparisons, month-by-month trip ideas and planning tools, plus geography games to test what you know.
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🌆 City Guides
Popular City Guides
🧭 Plan Your Trip
Where Should You Go Next?
📅 Where to go when
The cities at their best in each month, with warm-weather escapes, budget picks and quieter options.
⚖️ Which city should you visit?
Side-by-side comparisons with our verdict, where to go, where to stay and how to see both.
🧭 Destination Finder
Tell us your month, budget, travel style and interests, and get a shortlist of cities that match, with the reasons for each.
Find my destination📝 Travel Blog
Latest Guides and Articles
A castle on a volcanic rock or the Book of Kells and pub music? Compare Edinburgh and Dublin by sights, culture, costs, currencies and entry rules.
Specialist ramen counters and shrines, or palaces and Korean barbecue? Compare Tokyo and Seoul by sights, food, transport, entry rules and seasons.
The Vatican and the Colosseum, or the Uffizi and David? Compare Rome and Florence by sights, museums, food and pace, and how to split a week by train.
📅 Updated Daily
City of the Day
🎮 Challenge Yourself
Geography Games
Guess the City
Identify cities from photos. Beat the timer, climb the ranks.
Play NowDaily Challenge
One mystery city every day, the same for everyone.
Play TodayWorld Tour
Travel region by region, without a single mistake.
Start TourCapitals Quiz
Name world capitals against the clock and build streaks.
Test Knowledge🔧 Free Tools
Free Travel Planning Tools
Budget Estimator
Daily and total trip costs by city and travel style.
🌤️Best Time to Visit
The recommended months for every city in our guide.
⚔️City vs City
Put any two of our cities side by side.
💱Currency Converter
Daily exchange rates for 150+ currencies.
✈️Flight Calculator
Distance and flying time between 200 cities.
🧳Packing List
A checklist for your trip length, season and destination.
About GuesTheCity
GuesTheCity started as a geography game, guessing cities from photos, and grew into a free travel site for curious explorers and trip planners. Today it has guides to 200 cities across every continent, each with key facts, the best time to visit, what the city is known for and quick answers to common questions. For many cities there are also places to eat and in-depth articles on the blog.
To help you decide, the where to go when pages show which cities are at their best each month, our city comparisons weigh up popular pairs like Lisbon and Porto, and the Destination Finder suggests cities for your season, budget and interests. The free travel tools cover budgets, currencies, seasons, flight times and packing.
If you love geography, test yourself with the Daily Challenge and the other games. Read more about who we are and how we research our guides on the About page.
Play on Your Phone
Guess the City is also a free app for Android, so you can play the photo game wherever you are.
📱 Get it on Google Play