🌍 About GuesTheCity

Geography games, city guides and practical travel tools in one place

What GuesTheCity is

GuesTheCity started as a geography game: look at a photo and guess which city it shows. The game is still here, on the web and as an Android app, but players kept asking the next question: what is that city actually like to visit? The site grew to answer it.

Today GuesTheCity has four parts that work together:

City guides with key facts, the best time to visit, top attractions and local food for cities on every continent, plus country overviews.
The travel blog: long-form guides, city comparisons and planning advice, each linked to the official sources behind it.
Free travel tools for budgets, currencies, seasons, time zones, packing and more.
Geography games, including a Daily Challenge, a world tour and a capitals quiz.

Who runs GuesTheCity

GuesTheCity was founded and is run by Emanuil S. It is an independent project, not part of a travel agency, airline or hotel group. Nobody pays us to include a destination in a guide or to rank it higher. The site is built and maintained by a small team that writes the guides, develops the games and tools, and reads every message sent through our contact page.

How we research and write guides

The short version is below. The full details, including how we use AI writing tools and how we handle sponsored content, are in our editorial policy.

Official sources first. Practical details such as opening arrangements, tickets, visitor fees and transport come from tourism boards, museums, transport operators and government pages. Our blog guides link to those sources so you can check the current situation yourself.
Dated, approximate prices. Prices and budgets are labelled with the year they refer to and are given as ranges. They are planning aids, not quotes.
Things that change are flagged. Renovations, closures, entry rules and event dates change often. Where that matters, we say so and point to the official page rather than repeating a detail that may already be out of date.
Updates and corrections. Articles show when they were last updated. If you spot an error or an outdated detail, tell us and we will check and correct it.

Where our data comes from

Exchange rates in the currency converter are fetched daily from the open ExchangeRate-API feed.
City photos come from the free stock libraries Pixabay and Pexels, used under their licences. See photo credits.
Traveller ratings and tips on city pages come from our visitors. Tips are reviewed before they appear.
Budget figures, seasonal ratings and city comparisons are our own estimates, built from typical prices and climate averages. Treat them as a starting point.

How the site is funded

GuesTheCity is free to use. It is funded in three ways, and none of them decides what we write:

Affiliate links. Some links to hotel, tour and flight search sites earn us a small commission if you book, at no extra cost to you. They are marked as sponsored links.
Sponsored placements. Businesses can buy a featured listing, a banner, a venue page or a sponsored article. These are always labelled as sponsored, every paid link carries rel="sponsored", and they are kept separate from our own recommendations. See Advertise with us.
Display advertising, shown only in line with your cookie choices.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections, partnership ideas or feedback on the games are all welcome. Email support@guessthecityapp.com or see the contact page. You can also read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.