According to the readers of Travel + Leisure, Savannah is ranked number three in the magazine’s “World’s Best Awards” survey for 2024.
Every year, Travel + Leisure invites its readers to rate their favorite travel experiences worldwide. This includes hotels, resorts, cities, islands, cruise ships, spas, airlines and more. In 2024, over 186,000 readers participated, casting more than 700,000 votes across 8,700 properties.
When it comes to cities, readers evaluated them based on six key criteria:
- Sights/Landmarks
- Culture
- Food
- Friendliness
- Shopping
- Value
Respondents rated each characteristic as excellent, above average, average, below average, or poor. The final scores represent the average of these ratings.
Readers love Savannah for:
- the charming parks
- excellent shopping
- scenic carriage rides
- intriguing cemetery tours
- the Starland District
Savannah, Georgia beat out the following cities (in order of ranking by readers):
- 4. Honolulu, Hawaii
- 5. New Orleans, Louisiana
- 6. San Antonio, Texas
- 7. Fort Worth, Texas
- 8. New York, New York
- 9. Chicago, Illinois
- 10. Aspen, Colorado
- 11. Taos, New Mexico
- 12. Annapolis, Maryland
- 13. Nashville, Tennessee
- 14. Boston, Massachusetts
- 15. Alexandria, Virginia
