About Sun Roulette

A spin gives you a destination forecasting good weather right now. The wheel only includes places that scored “promising” or better on our weather rating today; nothing rainy, off-season, or too hot ever lands on the pointer. If you want more control, the classic search is still there with all the dials — trip length, party, budget, coast preference, flight time.

The site lives at both sunroulette.com and getmethesun.com. Same product, two doors — the roulette's the fun one, “Get me the sun” is what it actually does.

How it picks

Open-Meteo gives us a 14-day forecast for ~80 hand-picked sun destinations. We refresh it several times a day. A scorer rates each one on sun hours, temperature fit (peaks at 28°C, falls off a cliff above 35°C), rain, wind, and consistency. The first five days carry most of the weight; days 11–14 are the model guessing and we mark them visually so you can tell.

The wheel pulls from the top 16 destinations sitting in “promising” or better. Within that pool, super-promising places spin a little heavier than promising ones, but anything in the top tier can come up. The label and the position always match — you can't land on a rainy week even if a destination is famous.

What this can and can't do

We can't promise sun. Nobody can. Weather two weeks out changes its mind regularly, and even a statistically reliable month throws the occasional wet week. What we can do is point you at the destinations the forecast prefers right now, with honest commentary on the months we'd actively avoid each place.

Treat this like a well-informed friend, not an oracle. Read the seasonal notes. Check the forecast again the day before you fly. Do your own digging on the things we can't see — festivals, renovations, the ferry that doesn't run on Tuesdays. We've tried to make finding the right place as simple as possible. You still get the final call.

How we (theoretically) make money

Affiliate commissions on hotels, flights, and the Shop — you don't pay extra, the booking sites pay us a share of their margin. None of it influences how destinations are ranked. The full version, with the maths on why this probably never covers the domain, lives on the affiliate disclosure page.

Who built this

One person, A. N. Edvardsen, from Oslo. I was actually just looking for a small project to learn Claude Code with — I didn't want to point it at the real work before I'd felt out how it behaves. This was one of many half-baked ideas in my notebook (the kind that get hatched on a plane, or on a beach, or at a sidewalk café with sea view). I'd never taken it further because I was 100% sure there was no money in it. But I'm the type of person who has to experience every failure firsthand — reading about them just isn't the same.

I gave myself three days to play. While I was building the scorer, the destination data, the weather API, the parameters, the ranking, the affiliate links — the actual useful bit — the “roulette” framing dropped into my head and added a couple more hours wrapping the search in something you'd actually want to interact with. The classic search still works underneath, for anyone who wants to say they travel alone, want a three-star kind of trip, and have exactly the second week of June free.

Whether it goes anywhere, I have no idea. The fun part was making it. If it helped you find a week of sun, that's already a reasonable return.

If something is wrong, or if a recommendation feels off, send a note to hello@sunroulette.com. The site improves through corrections.

Last updated May 2026.