Where does Hot Air Balloon Index get these numbers?

Prices come from the schema.org product markup on the page that sells the flight, and only when the same figure also appears in that page’s visible text; every row carries that URL and the date. GetYourGuide and Viator refuse this reader at robots.txt and contribute nothing. The flight-odds layer is modelled from NOAA station observations of dawn wind, dew point, rain and sky cover against thresholds the methodology page states. It is not an operator’s flight record.

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We may earn a commission if you book through links on this page, at no extra cost to you. No affiliate programme is live yet, so today every link goes to the page the row was read from.

Why is a place missing?

A place is published once we can count at least 5 flights there. Smaller places wait until the list is more useful.

Photo credits

Every photograph on this site, who took it, where it came from and under what licence.

Hot Air Balloon Index editorial team

10 photographs are published on this site.

Some of these photographs are share-alike: the file we serve stays under the same licence as the original, and the row below links to both.

Photographer, source file and licence for each one.
Photograph	Photographer	Licence
Cappadocia, Turkey — balloons over valleys at sunriseHot air balloons drifting over Cappadocia's eroded valleys in golden sunrise light.	Daniela Cuevas	CC0 Source
Valleys near Göreme, Cappadocia, TurkeyBalloons scattered across a pale dawn sky above the valleys near Göreme.	MusikAnimal	CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Göreme, Cappadocia — many balloons over fairy chimneysDozens of hot air balloons rising above the fairy chimneys of Göreme at sunrise.	Wolfgang Moroder	CC BY-SA 3.0 Source
Cappadocia, Turkey — balloons over snowHot air balloons over a snow-covered Cappadocia landscape in winter.	yonatan anugerah yonatanugerah	CC0 Source
Segovia, Spain — balloons near the AlcázarHot air balloons in a clear sky beside the Alcázar of Segovia, Spain.	Isabel SBL	CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Segovia, Spain — balloon shadow on another envelopeThe shadow of a balloon and basket cast onto the red envelope of another balloon over Segovia.	Javier Casado Tirado	CC BY-SA 3.0 Source
Teotihuacán, Mexico — balloons over the Pyramid of the SunHot air balloons over the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán, Mexico.	Jorge Castro Ruso	CC BY-SA 2.0 Source
Teotihuacán, Mexico — balloons inflating at dawnColorful balloon envelopes being inflated on the ground at dawn near Teotihuacán.	Jorge Castro Ruso	CC BY-SA 2.0 Source
Teotihuacán, Mexico — aerial view of pyramid from balloonAerial view of a Teotihuacán pyramid seen from a hot air balloon.	Jorge Castro Ruso	CC BY-SA 2.0 Source
Teotihuacán, Mexico — view down from the basketLooking down past the wicker basket rim at farmland from a balloon over Teotihuacán.	Jorge Castro Ruso	CC BY-SA 2.0 Source

The photographs are from Wikimedia Commons file pages, and the licence named in each row is the one recorded on that page. The file this site serves is a resized WebP copy of the original; where a licence is share-alike, that copy carries the same licence as the original.

No photograph here was generated. A picture is only ever shown beside the place it was taken in, and a place with no photograph of its own gets a drawn plate instead.