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Honolulu

United States · HNL · UTC-11
21.31°N
lat
157.86°W
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US
region
US
country
Stunning aerial view of Honolulu's skyline along the Pacific Ocean on a sunny day.
Avg trip cost · 5 nights
€768
mid-range, all-in
Best month
Jan
24°C · mild crowds
CO₂ from Berlin
1240 kg
short/long-haul · DEFRA
Match for "beach + nature"
67
category match
Cost across the year

5-night trip · all-in · per traveler

flight + lodging + on-ground · 7-day rolling median

€648
cheapest · Jan
€650 €750 €850 €950 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec €648 · best
↑ peak summer · €1008 (Jun) · ↓ winter dip · €648 (Jan)
Best time to visit

Jan. By a mile.

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Climate comfort
97
Crowd level
88
Price index
73
Sunshine
99
Event impact
72
Things to do

Six honest picks. Not sixty.

From Wikipedia + OpenStreetMap. No affiliate links, no crowd bias.

Museums

Hawaii Children's Discovery Center

Hawaii Children's Discovery Center is a children's museum located near Honolulu, Hawaii's Kaka'ako Waterfront Park. Founded in 1989, the 38,000 sq ft (3,500 m2) museum receives over 200,000 visits from children and their families every year.

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Washington Place

Washington Place is a Greek Revival palace in the Hawaii Capital Historic District in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was where Queen Liliʻuokalani was arrested during the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Later it became the official residence of the governor of Hawaii. In 2007, it was designated as a National Historic Landmark. The current governor's residence was built in 2008 behind the historic residence and is located on the same grounds as Washington Place.

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Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum

USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy named for the bowfin fish. Since 1981, she has been open to public tours at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, next to the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center.

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Capitol Modern

The Capitol Modern Museum, formerly named the Hawaii State Art Museum until 2023, is a small art gallery located on the second floor of the No. 1 Capitol District Building in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Long known as HiSAM, the museum is operated by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawaiʻi and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiian cultural material, the museum's total holding of natural history specimens exceeds 24 million, of which the entomological collection alone represents more than 13.5 million specimens. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to Herbarium Pacificum of this museum is BISH and this abbreviation is used when citing housed herbarium specimens.

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The Honolulu Museum of Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. It has one of the largest single collections of Asian and Pan-Pacific art in the United States, and since its official opening on April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to more than 55,000 works of art.

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Attractions

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Getting there

Open Best Way
Flight from Berlin
recommended
door-to-door · 1 traveler
time
9h 15m
cost
€480
CO₂
1240 kg
Train (multi-leg)
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Long-distance bus
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