Condé Nast Traveler: Best Places to Go 2026
27 of this year's honorees, each with Soar's seasonal window, budget tier and travel-style read.
Arusha, TanzaniaSafari gateway: dry-season game drives, calving season in the south
BarbadosTurquoise west-coast bays and Bridgetown rum, dry sunny winter
Bentonville, USAWorld-class art and Ozark singletrack in mild spring
Boquete, PanamaCloud-forest coffee highlands and quetzals in the dry-season hills
Boston, USAFreedom Trail bricks and harbor sails, crisp red-leaf autumn
Brussels, BelgiumGrand squares, art nouveau, and Europe's best beer culture
Buffalo, USARevived grain-silo waterfront and Gilded-Age halls, bright fall days
Catalina Island, USAArt Deco Casino above a yacht harbor, sunny SoCal summer swims
Chamonix, FranceMont Blanc's basecamp: glaciers, cable cars and deep winter powder
Deer Valley, USAGroomed Wasatch bowls and ski-in luxury, deep January powder
Fès, MoroccoThe medieval medina, mosaic workshops, shoulder-season calm
Guadalajara, MexicoMariachi plazas and tequila country, warm dry days each spring
Hong KongNeon harbour skyline and dim sum, green peaks and islands, dry autumn
Lake Bled, SloveniaIsland church on a glacial lake below the Julian Alps, mirror-calm autumn
Margaret River, AustraliaSurf breaks and cellar-door wineries, sunny southern-autumn harvest
Medellín, ColombiaCity of eternal spring, mountain barrios reborn
Messinia, GreeceVoidokilia's crescent bay and Pylos ruins, golden Peloponnese summer
Naoshima, JapanArt-island museums on a serene Seto Inland Sea coast
Oulu, FinlandNorthern lights over the Arctic coast without Lapland prices
Portland, USAFood-cart rows and forest parks, rose-bloom early-summer days
Potosí, BoliviaSilver-mine city at 4000m, cool clear Andean winter skies
Prince Edward County, CanadaSandbanks dunes and family wineries, warm Ontario harvest autumn
Saadiyat Island, United Arab EmiratesLouvre and new Guggenheim on a white-sand island, cool winter museum days
Sayulita, MexicoBoho Pacific surf town with gray whales offshore December to March
Udaipur, IndiaLake palaces in golden winter light, post-monsoon full lakes
Uluru, AustraliaRed-centre sunrises and cool desert hikes in winter dry season
Victoria Falls, ZambiaFull-thunder falls after the rains, spray visible for miles