Geoguessr
Released: 2026-05-23
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moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
moonshot
Score: 4993
Distance: 3km
Lat: 35.293
Lng: -119.043
This image shows a suburban residential area with single-story houses with tiled roofs behind a concrete block wall, typical of California’s Central Valley. The flat terrain, dry vegetation, hazy sky, and architectural style are characteristic of Bakersfield or surrounding Kern County areas. The power pole and street infrastructure match typical suburban development patterns in this region. The Google Street View UI elements and image quality suggest this is from the 2009-2012 era of Street View photography in this area.
google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Score: 4970
Distance: 12km
Lat: 35.331238
Lng: -118.948292
The image features architectural styles consistent with suburban developments in California’s Central Valley, specifically Bakersfield. The cinder block privacy wall, desert-tolerant vegetation, and unique single-story housing designs with specific roof tiles are highly characteristic of this region. The lighting and sky haze also suggest the arid, dusty environment found in Kern County.
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
meta
Score: 4563
Distance: 183km
Lat: 34.0784
Lng: -117.6771
The image shows a typical suburban scene with houses behind a wall, a street, and power lines. The architecture and vegetation suggest a location in the southwestern United States. The dry conditions and the specific style of the houses are consistent with areas like Southern California. The exact coordinates are a guess based on the appearance of the houses and the landscape.
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
anthropic
Score: 17
Distance: 11367km
Lat: 42.5
Lng: 59.6
This image shows a Central Asian suburban/rural area with characteristic architectural style. The houses feature flat or low-pitched roofs with tan/beige colored walls, typical of construction in Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan. The landscape is arid with sparse vegetation and dusty terrain. The utility poles and power lines, combined with the housing development pattern and overall environment, suggest this is likely in the Aral Sea region or Mangystau Oblast of Kazakhstan. The image quality and style is consistent with Google Street View coverage from Central Asia. Based on the architectural patterns and environmental characteristics, I’m estimating this to be somewhere in western Kazakhstan, possibly near the Caspian region or Mangystau Oblast.
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
anthropic
Score: 4962
Distance: 15km
Lat: 35.4
Lng: -119.1
This image shows a typical suburban street in California’s Central Valley. The characteristics include: hazy/smoggy sky typical of the San Joaquin Valley, single-story ranch-style homes with stucco walls, dry scrubby vegetation, wide roads, utility poles, and the overall arid landscape. The architecture and environment strongly suggest Bakersfield or a nearby city in Kern County, California.
openai/gpt-5-image-mini
openai
Score: 4556
Distance: 186km
Lat: 34.4167
Lng: -117.3
Semi-arid desert scrub, low cinderblock wall and single-story stucco homes with pitched shingle/tile roofs — characteristic of Mojave high desert suburbs in San Bernardino County (Hesperia/Victorville area). Sparse trees behind the wall, a single wooden utility pole with crossarm and visible long straight road suggest a suburban edge road rather than dense urban or agricultural area. The curb paint and road width match typical California desert city arterials. Chosen point in central Hesperia as a representative match.
Methodology Note
Each model receives the same Google Street View image. Models are tasked with guessing the location of the image using only visual clues from the street view. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.