Google Flightsisa solid tool for booking travel.

You could researchthe cheapest months to fly, on average.

Instead, you might consider booking your trip in March or May.

Besides, the weather is just as nice, if not a little less swelteringly hot.

Google Flights recently released a new tool that lets you find destinations based on month and duration.

The tool will populate a list of popular destination cities and prices.

Its also fun to explore the map version.

From here, theres a snippet of a map that gives you the option to Explore Destinations.

it’s possible for you to also navigate to the Explore map via the Google Flights main page.

Just click directly on the map or navigate to the options menu and select Explore map.

Prices fluctuate quite a bit, and you want to swoop in and scoop up the best deal.

According to data fromCheapAir.com, the sweet spot for finding tickets at their lowest priceis about 54 days advance.

you could also get alerts viaGoogle Nowwhen prices change.

Ive also used this feature to save some money myself.

Explore Vacation Destinations By Region

Its fun to explore destinations by region, too.

This is also useful if youre visiting various cities and looking for the cheapest city to fly into.

This is basically finding a flight with a long layover in a different city.

This way, you get to enjoy a whole other city on the way to your destination.

Its like a vacation bonus!

To do this, run a flight search as usual.

If you want to search for all of them, select Any Connection.

Then, see to it you have Any Duration selected, then run your search.

This way, the longest layovers show up in your search results.

Longer flights usually equal long layovers.

Its worth pointing out that this is basically whatSkiplaggedandCleverLayoverdo, too.

Plus, Google makes it a bit easier to book those flights outside of their tool.

Optimize Your Airline Miles

If youre a fan of travel rewards, youll like this one.

Googles new Flights update make it incredibly easy to explore and plan your trip accordingly.

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