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WanderGrade

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Where your money goes furthest — 150 countries graded

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Where your money goes furthest — 150 countries graded

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Wandergrade grades 150+ countries A+ to F for affordability, safety, weather, and flights — free, no sign-up, no paywall. Affordability blends World Bank PPP data with live exchange rates; safety pulls from three governments' travel advisories; a budget filter removes countries your flight cost alone rules out. Includes 176 country guides. Built solo in Python's standard library, zero dependencies. Feedback welcome: hello@wandergrade.com

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Hey PH — solo maker here. This started with an actual decision I couldn't make: Guatemala or Ecuador. Two weeks in Latin America, travelling on my own, and both had everything I wanted — big nature, serious hiking, plenty of other backpackers around. I went back and forth for ages. What finally decided it was money: flights, plus what two weeks of accommodation and day-to-day spending would realistically cost. Guatemala won. What bothered me was how long that took to work out, and how none of it carried over to the next trip. So I built the thing I wanted: pick a month and where you're flying from, and every country gets graded A+ to F on affordability, safety, weather and flights. One thing I deliberately didn't build is a "this costs $X a day" number. Two people in the same country spend completely differently depending on what they eat, where they sleep, and how much they shop — so rather than invent an average that fits nobody, it uses real cached airfares to rule out trips your budget genuinely can't cover, then shows what's left in terms of what that money actually buys locally. The judgement stays yours. The weakest part is flights. Most people price a trip on Google Flights, which has no API, so what I have is cached averages — good enough to tell you a country is out of reach, not good enough to book on. What I'd actually like to know: would you use something like this to plan a real trip, or is it more fun to just browse? Those are pretty different products and I'm honestly not sure which one I've built. Free, no sign-up, nothing to book.

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Would you actually plan a trip with this, or just browse it?

I built WanderGrade to answer one question for myself: out of every country, not just the ones already on my list, where does my money and time actually go furthest.

It scores ~155 countries A+ to F on affordability (World Bank PPP plus live exchange rates), safety (US, Canada and Germany advisories, with the sternest one winning when they disagree), weather, and flights. The flights grade is the weak link on purpose: it's cached fare averages, not live prices, so it's good for telling you a country is out of reach, not for booking. No sign-up, no paywall.

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