The start of a new year means the chance to add to your travel bucket list.
And while many tourists will be flocking to trending destinations like Maui and Barcelona, others will be looking for more budget-friendly trips.
In order to help you identify the places that will get you the most bang for your buck in 2018, we teamed up with travel search engine Kayak.
Of Kayak’s 100 most-searched flight destinations, the below 10 are the destinations with the lowest overall median trip cost — a number that was calculated based on the price of a flight and a three-night hotel stay. The travel dates and search dates that Kayak looked at fell within the one-year period of October 25th, 2016, to October 24th, 2017.
Kayak also provided median hotel prices in those destinations and median airfare prices for flights departing from the US and Canada to those cities. All of these prices are based on travel dates that fall within the one-year period of November 1st, 2016, and October 31st, 2017.
Keep scrolling to see the most wallet-friendly trips you can plan for this year.
10. Baltimore, Maryland
Cheapest time to go: February
Median airfare in February: $220
Median hotel rate in February: $124
Cheapest time to book: three or five months before departure
Read more: 50 places to travel in 2018
9. Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cheapest time to go: January
Median airfare in January: $249
Median hotel rate in January: $115
Cheapest time to book: five months before departure
8. Salt Lake City, Utah
Cheapest time to go: January
Median airfare in January: $280
Median hotel rate in January: $111
Cheapest time to book: six months before departure
7. Tampa, Florida
Cheapest time to go: September
Median airfare in September: $222
Median hotel rate in September: $130
Cheapest time to book: six months before departure
6. Fort Myers, Florida
Cheapest time to go: January
Median airfare in January: $206
Median hotel rate in January: $117
Cheapest time to book: six months before departure
Read more: Here are the best times to visit Hawaii for low prices and great weather in 2018
5. Denver, Colorado
Cheapest time to go: January
Median airfare in January: $189
Median hotel rate in January: $119
Cheapest time to book: five months before departure
4. Raleigh, North Carolina
Cheapest time to go: January
Median airfare in January: $244
Median hotel rate in January: $98
Cheapest time to book: six months before departure
3. Orlando, Florida
Cheapest time to go: January
Median airfare in January: $178
Median hotel rate in January: $115
Cheapest time to book: one month before departure
2. Calgary, Canada
Cheapest time to go: October
Median airfare in October: $280
Median hotel rate in October: $105
Cheapest time to book: three months before departure
Read more: Here are the exact days to book the cheapest flights in 2018
1. Guadalajara, Mexico
Cheapest time to go: May
Median airfare in May: $282
Median hotel rate in May: $62
Cheapest time to book: six months before departure
This article originally appeared on ThisIsInsider.com
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