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Nomad Circuit Builder

A twelve-month circuit matched to your weather, budget, time zone and pace, with calendar, map and budget views.

Pick a preset above to see how a circuit is put together, or fill in the form for a personalised twelve months. The builder chooses one destination per slot from the database by climate comfort (WMO normals), cost against your budget, internet, community, setting and time-zone overlap, never repeating a stop and preferring shorter hops.

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Each slot scores every eligible destination: 5 × climate fit (WMO monthly maximum temperature and rainfall against your preference and rain tolerance; editorial best months where no normals exist), up to 1.5 for community weighted by your social preference, up to 1 for internet, up to 1.5 for headroom under your budget, penalties for setting mismatches, a time-zone overlap term (hours of the employer’s working day that fall between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. locally, with summer-time approximation), and a distance penalty from the previous stop. Internet, coworking and community are editorial assessments dated on each destination page. Visa lines are prompts to verify, not decisions.

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