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Multi-city trip planners compared: Google Flights, Kiwi.com Nomad and Stopover

You have a home airport, a few cities and some dates. Three tools answer that in three different ways. This says what each one asks for, whether it works out the order for you, where you book and who is responsible if a flight is late, from each tool’s own pages. Stopover is ours, and the table says where the others are the better choice.

Google Flights, multi-city

One of three ticket types beside round trip and one way. You pick multi-city at the top and, in Google’s words, “choose a flight for each part of your trip.” Each row is one flight with its own date, and the results compare airlines and agencies for that itinerary.

The right tool when you already know the order and the dates and want one ticket, on one airline or alliance, with the airline responsible for the connections. What it does not do is compare orders: that is one search per order, and the cheapest day for a single flight is rarely the cheapest day for the trip.

Kiwi.com Nomad

Kiwi.com’s own description: Nomad “allows you to input multiple destinations and your desired duration of stay in each of them, before it calculates the cheapest possible route,” and it “shuffles the destinations you input and finds you the most cost-effective itinerary.” You set a departure city and date, the nights you want to be away, then the places and the nights in each; the page asks for three or more destinations.

The right tool when you want the route and the booking in one place: the page says you can “book your entire trip in just a single search,” on Kiwi.com. The same page describes the Kiwi.com Guarantee for a connection missed because of a delay; whether a given result is one ticket or several, and what the Guarantee covers, is on the booking page and in the Guarantee’s own terms, which are worth reading before you pay.

Stopover

Stopover is a free multi-city trip planner: give it your home airport, the cities you want to visit and a date window, and it prices every order the cities could go in, on dates that fit together, and gives you the cheapest one, with a link to book each flight.

The difference is the window. You give a range of dates, a range of nights for each city, and if you like a maximum trip length, and it prices every order on every set of dates that fits, so the totals it compares are whole trips rather than a sum of the cheapest fares on different days. On the 72 routes we price in full, the order alone is typically worth about $189 a person, and up to $900. It also checks each flight for a layover long enough to be a free day in a city, for two separate tickets that beat the through fare, for a cheaper day either side, and for an airline stopover program on your route.

The right tool when the order and the exact dates are still open and you want to see what they are worth before booking anywhere. It never sells a ticket: each leg links to Google Flights, Kiwi.com, Skyscanner or the airline, at their price. It does not book hotels, and a trip takes up to 7 cities.

Try it on New York to Lisbon, Madrid and Rome

Side by side

Question	Google Flights	Kiwi.com Nomad	Stopover
What you enter	The order of the flights and a date for each: you choose a flight for each part of your trip.	A departure city and date, the number of nights away, the places you want to visit and the nights in each; three or more destinations.	A home airport, the cities in any order, a date window (fixed or flexible), nights per city and travelers. Optionally a locked order, a first or last city, and a maximum trip length.
Works out the order of the cities	No. It prices the order you typed. Comparing orders means a search for each, on each set of dates.	Yes. Kiwi says it shuffles the destinations you input and finds the most cost-effective itinerary.	Yes. Every order, on dates that fit together inside your window, with the runner-up orders and what each would cost.
Flexible dates	Each flight has one date. A date grid helps for a single leg.	A departure date and the nights away; the page does not describe a date range.	A window of weeks or months, a range of nights per city, and a maximum trip length; the plan can sit anywhere inside it.
Where you book	Links to the airline or an agency. One ticket when the flights are on one airline or alliance.	On Kiwi.com, the whole trip in one search; the booking page says whether it is one ticket or several.	It does not sell tickets. Each leg links to Google Flights, Kiwi.com, Skyscanner or the airline, and you book there at their price.
If a flight is late	On one ticket the airline rebooks you. Google warns that on a layover or multi-city trip you might miss your second trip and should contact the airline.	Kiwi's page says the Kiwi.com Guarantee covers the trip when a delay makes you miss a connection; read the Guarantee's terms before booking.	Depends on what you book. A two-ticket combo is marked as unprotected, with a risk rating and the connection buffer, and is only shown when it beats the through fare.
Beyond the route	Price tracking and a price graph for a leg.	The rest of Kiwi.com: hotels, cars, and the Guarantee as an add-on.	Layovers long enough to count as a free extra city, two-ticket combos, cheaper days either side, cities you can add cheaply on the way home, airline stopover programs on your route, and an email if the fares drop.
Price	Free.	Not stated on the page; you pay for the trip you book.	Free, no account, up to 3 trips a day. A free account adds live prices on every leg.

What Google Flights and Kiwi.com do is taken from their own pages as read on November 2, 2026, linked under Sources. Those pages change; they are the ones to trust.

Which one for which trip

You know the order and the dates, and want one airline ticket with protected connections: Google Flights, multi-city, or the airline’s own site.
You want the route and the booking in one place and are happy to book through Kiwi.com: Nomad.
The order and the exact dates are still open, or you want to know what the order is worth before you book: Stopover, then book each leg where its button points.
You want days in a city on the way, on one ticket, at the same fare: an airline stopover program. How to book a flight with a stopover.

Questions people ask

Can Google Flights find the cheapest order of my cities?

Not on its own. A multi-city search prices the order you type, flight by flight, on the dates you give. To compare orders you search each one, and the cheapest day for one flight is rarely the cheapest day for the trip as a whole.

Is Kiwi.com Nomad the same thing as Stopover?

They answer the same question, which order to visit the cities in, and differ after that. Nomad is a search and a booking in one place on Kiwi.com. Stopover prices every order inside a flexible window, shows the runner-up orders, checks each flight for a layover worth a day in a city and for two-ticket combos and cheaper days, and then links each flight to where you book it, Kiwi.com included. It never sells a ticket.

Do I still need Google Flights or Kiwi.com if I use Stopover?

Yes, to book. Stopover works out the order, the dates and the flights, and each leg's button opens that fare on the site that sells it. The number you see on Stopover is the fare that was on sale when it looked; the booking site has the last word.

Sources

Kiwi.com, Travel hacks (the Nomad section and its FAQ)Read on November 2, 2026.
Google, Search for flights (Google Travel help)Read on November 2, 2026.

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