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Where to go in May.
Twenty destinations ranked by how quietly they priced during May — drawn from every week of our Quiet Cities Index that fell inside the month.
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- 01🇨🇿 CZECHIA · QUIET SCORE 75 · 23% under typical · 2 weeks of data
Prague
- 02🇸🇪 SWEDEN · QUIET SCORE 65 · 10% under typical · 2 weeks of data
Stockholm
- 03🇪🇸 SPAIN · QUIET SCORE 64 · 11% under typical · 2 weeks of data
Barcelona
- 04🇪🇸 SPAIN · QUIET SCORE 63 · 17% under typical · 2 weeks of data
Madrid
- 05🇵🇹 PORTUGAL · QUIET SCORE 62 · 15% under typical · 2 weeks of data
Lisbon
- 06🇯🇵 JAPAN · QUIET SCORE 62 · 7% under typical · 2 weeks of data
Tokyo
- 07🇦🇪 UAE · QUIET SCORE 51 · 2 weeks of data
Dubai
- 08🇧🇷 BRAZIL · QUIET SCORE 51 · 0% under typical · 2 weeks of data
Rio de Janeiro
- 09🇹🇭 THAILAND · QUIET SCORE 50 · 2 weeks of data
Bangkok
- 10🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA · QUIET SCORE 50 · 2 weeks of data
Sydney
- 11🇸🇬 SINGAPORE · QUIET SCORE 49 · 2 weeks of data
Singapore
- 12🇪🇬 EGYPT · QUIET SCORE 47 · 2 weeks of data
Cairo
- 13🇮🇳 INDIA · QUIET SCORE 44 · 2 weeks of data
Mumbai
- 14🇺🇸 USA · QUIET SCORE 41 · 2 weeks of data
Los Angeles
- 15🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA · QUIET SCORE 41 · 2 weeks of data
Cape Town
- 16🇬🇷 GREECE · QUIET SCORE 38 · 2 weeks of data
Athens
- 17🇺🇸 USA · QUIET SCORE 36 · 2 weeks of data
New York
- 18🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA · QUIET SCORE 28 · 2 weeks of data
Seoul
- 19🇮🇹 ITALY · QUIET SCORE 26 · 2 weeks of data
Rome
- 20🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND · QUIET SCORE 25 · 2 weeks of data
Auckland
HOW IT'S CALCULATED
We pull every weekly bake of our Quiet Cities Index that falls inside May, across both this year and last. For each city, we average its quiet-score across those weeks. The ranking favors cities with sustained softness, not single-week anomalies.
The quiet-score itself blends three signals — current hotel pricing vs the city’s typical baseline, sample confidence, and a soft region-balance penalty so the index doesn’t skew all-European. See the live weekly Index.