Estimate your total trip budget, cost per traveler, and daily spending from transportation, lodging, food, activities, local transport, taxes, fees, and contingency.
Enter your own planning amounts. Blank cost fields are treated as zero.
All amounts should use the selected currency.
Estimated Trip Budget
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Enter valid trip details to calculate your budget.
✈️ Transportation
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🏨 Lodging
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🍽️ Food
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🎟️ Activities
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🚕 Local transport
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🧳 Other costs
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🧾 Taxes & fees
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🛟 Contingency
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Travel budget disclaimer: This calculator provides a planning estimate from the amounts you enter. It does not use live airfare, hotel, destination-price, tax, fee, or exchange-rate data. Actual travel costs can differ.
Your estimated trip cost is the sum of your planned transportation, lodging, food, activities, local transport, and other costs. The calculator then adds estimated taxes and fees before applying a contingency buffer, and reports the total, per-traveler, and per-person daily budgets.
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Lodging = Per-night lodging × Nights
Food = Food/person/day × Travelers × Days
Activities = Activities/person × Travelers
Local transport = Daily group amount × Days
Subtotal = Transportation + Lodging + Food + Activities + Local transport + Other costs
Taxes & fees = Subtotal × Rate
Contingency = (Subtotal + Taxes & fees) × Rate
Total budget = Subtotal + Taxes & fees + Contingency
Budget per person = Total budget ÷ Travelers
Budget per person per day = Total budget ÷ (Travelers × Days)
For 2 travelers taking a 6-day, 5-night trip, assume $800.00 transportation, $180.00 lodging per night, $60.00 food per person per day, $150.00 activities per person, $40.00 local transport per day, and $100.00 in other costs. With 5% taxes and fees and 10% contingency:
Trip subtotal
$3,060.00
Final budget
$3,534.30
Per person / day
$294.53
Category totals are $800.00 transportation, $900.00 lodging, $720.00 food, $300.00 activities, $240.00 local transportation, and $100.00 other costs. Taxes and fees are $153.00, producing a $3,213.00 subtotal after fees. Contingency is then $321.30. The final per-person budget is $1,767.15.
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A practical travel budget can include primary transportation, lodging, food, activities, local transportation, other fixed costs, estimated taxes and fees, and a contingency allowance for unexpected expenses.
Enter the total lodging cost per night for the whole group or the room combination you need. Do not enter a per-person lodging rate unless that is actually how your accommodation is priced.
Lodging uses nights, while food and local transportation use trip days. Nights may be zero and do not have to equal days minus one, but they cannot exceed the number of trip days.
Food is entered per person per day. The calculator multiplies that amount by the number of travelers and the number of trip days.
Activities are entered per person for the entire trip. The calculator multiplies the entered amount by the number of travelers, but not by the number of days.
Local transportation is entered as a whole-group daily budget. It is multiplied by the number of trip days, not by the number of travelers.
Estimated taxes and fees are applied to the trip subtotal first. Contingency is then applied to the subtotal after those taxes and fees, so the two percentages are sequential rather than simply added together.
No. US mode displays USD and Canada mode displays CAD. Switching regions clears the current inputs and does not perform an exchange-rate conversion.
No. This is a planning calculator based on the amounts you enter. It does not query live airfare, hotel prices, destination databases, taxes, or exchange rates.
