Twelve winter-sun escapes, ranked by how far your spending money stretches. Daily budgets are researched and shown in pounds at today's rate, so you can see where a British winter buys the most sunshine.
Ranked by mid-range daily spending money (food, local transport and activities per person, excluding flights and hotels), converted to pounds at the Travel FX online rate on 28 Oct 2026. Spending-money bands are researched from budgetyourtrip.com; the Canary Islands and Madeira are calibrated to typical UK package-holiday spending. Figures are a guide — the rate you get from Travel FX is shown at checkout.
Bali tops the table: a mid-range day costs about £39 in spending money, so a week runs to roughly £274 per person before flights and hotels. At the other end, Maldives is the splurge at around £229 a day. The short-haul Canary Islands sit in between — mild, reliable winter sun a four-hour flight away, all on easy euros. Tap any destination for its winter weather, a full budget breakdown and the calculator pre-set to that trip.
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