We find you somewhere the sun is actually out
sunny.day looks at the live forecast across a set of destinations, scores each one honestly, and shows you the short trips whose weather genuinely holds up — with flights and hotels attached, ready to book.
The problem we exist for
Booking a short break is a bet on the weather that you place weeks in advance with no information. Every travel site is happy to sell you a beach in the rain, because the sale is the same either way. Nobody's incentive is aligned with your Tuesday actually being sunny.
So we inverted it. Instead of picking a destination and hoping, you pick a departure city and a length of trip, and we tell you where the forecast is good right now.
The honesty stance
This is the whole product, so it is worth being blunt about. Our commercial interest is in you booking something. Our stated position is that we will not flatter bad weather to get there. Concretely, that means:
- Clear does not mean partly cloudy. When we count clear days, we count days the forecast calls clear. Partly cloudy days score well and we say so — but they are not counted as clear, because that would be a lie told with a technicality.
- The worst day is visible. A quarter of every window score is set by its worst day. One washout in a week cannot be averaged into invisibility.
- We show the worst number, not the best. When a window has a range of rain probabilities, you see the highest one.
- We never call a grey week good. If the dull days equal or outnumber the bright ones, no headline on this site will describe that window as a good run.
- We do not invent numbers. Where data is missing it says unknown, or it is left out. There is no filler.
Today, a meaningful share of the destinations in our dataset have zero genuinely clear days in the live forecast — including some that score well on temperature and dryness. We show that on the destination itself, and our methodology page deliberately uses one of those awkward cases as its worked example rather than a flattering one.
How we make money
Today, nothing: sunny.day takes no bookings, so it earns no booking commission. If we start selling travel, we expect to earn commission from suppliers on completed bookings, and we will say so here when it happens. We are not paid to rank a destination higher, and the weather score — which sets the ordering — is computed from forecast data alone, with no commercial input. The full model is published so that claim is checkable rather than merely asserted.
Who we are
sunny.day is a trading name of The Digital Carpenter, operating from New York. We are a discovery and price comparison site. We do not sell travel or take bookings today, and hotel and flight prices come from third-party supplier data. Hotel rates currently come from LiteAPI and RouteStack. Flight data currently comes from Duffel and RouteStack. The terms set that out in detail.
Questions, complaints and press: contact us.