Solo trips from your city
Easy places to go on your own from your city: walkable cities with good transit, social hostels and plenty to do alone. Each has the cheapest round trip we've seen recently.
Choose your departure city
Each city page shows real round-trip fares from that city, with the cheapest one for each destination.
United States: Seattle · New York · San Francisco Bay Area · Los Angeles · Miami or Fort Lauderdale · Chicago · Denver · Minneapolis · Houston · Washington, DC · Dallas-Fort Worth · Atlanta · Orlando · Las Vegas · Charlotte · Phoenix · Boston · Detroit · Philadelphia · Salt Lake City · San Diego · Nashville · Tampa · Austin · Honolulu · Portland · Raleigh/Durham · Saint Louis · Sacramento · San Juan · New Orleans · Kansas City · Fort Myers · San Antonio · Indianapolis · Cleveland · Pittsburgh · Columbus · Cincinnati · West Palm Beach · Jacksonville · Maui · Hartford · Charleston · Milwaukee · Anchorage · Boise · Omaha · Albuquerque · Buffalo · Richmond · Norfolk
United Kingdom: London · Manchester · Edinburgh · Birmingham · Glasgow · Bristol · Belfast · Newcastle · Liverpool · Leeds · Aberdeen
Canada: Toronto · Vancouver · Montreal · Calgary · Edmonton · Ottawa · Winnipeg · Halifax · Quebec · Victoria
Where to go and why
- Lisbon: Social hostels, free walking tours and trams up to the miradouros
- Tokyo: Counter-seat ramen and sushi bars made for one, and trains that run to the minute
- Copenhagen: Flat, bike-friendly streets that feel safe late at night, and English widely spoken
- Montreal: Bilingual and walkable, with the metro, the Plateau's cafés and summer festivals
- Reykjavik: Day tours from Reykjavík to the Golden Circle and south coast make it easy alone
- Seoul: A subway that goes everywhere and a culture of eating out alone at honbap spots
- Mexico City: Walkable Roma and Condesa, group food tours and a metro across a huge city
- Amsterdam: Cycle anywhere, stay in a social hostel and meet people on a canal walk
- Edinburgh: A compact Old Town on foot, pubs with live folk music and free walking tours
- Singapore: Hawker centers with single seats, a spotless MRT and very low crime
- Taipei: Night markets for grazing solo, an easy MRT and streets that feel safe after dark
- Melbourne: A free tram zone in the city, laneway cafés and an easygoing pub scene
- Vancouver: SkyTrain from the airport, the Stanley Park seawall and hostels downtown
- Medellin: El Poblado's hostels, the metro and cable cars, and Comuna 13 walking tours
- Chicago: The L to every neighborhood, the Riverwalk and architecture tours to join
- Portland: Food cart pods, Powell's Books and MAX light rail straight from the airport
- Barcelona: Gothic Quarter walks, beach days at Barceloneta and hostels with group dinners
- Chiang Mai: Old City temples, cooking classes and a big community of travelers and remote workers
- Berlin: Hostels, bar-hopping in Kreuzberg and a U-Bahn that runs all night on weekends
- Dublin: Pubs where strangers chat over trad music sessions, and a city easy to cross on foot
Check your government's travel advice before you go; it can differ from one city or region to the next.
Facts checked October 7, 2026. Sources: Wikipedia: Melbourne's Free Tram Zone