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Puzzle#280

Geoguessr

Released: 2026-08-11

Google Street View Image
Country Flag

Romania

Lat: 45.3867677856748

Lng: 22.11143246027425

See on Google Street View


5
Models Tested
3000.6km
Avg. Distance
2320.0
Avg. Score
5
LLM Providers

Key:

Attempt
Solution

Score Threshold:

>4400
>2000
<2000

meta-llama/llama-4-maverick

meta

Score: 32

Distance: 10110km

Lat: 37.7749

Lng: -122.4194


The image shows a dirt road winding through a wooded area. The presence of lush greenery and the style of the road suggest a temperate region. The ’Google’ watermark indicates it’s a Google Street View image. While the exact location can’t be pinpointed without more specific features, the image’s characteristics are consistent with many areas in the United States or Europe. However, without distinct landmarks or signs, it’s challenging to determine the precise location. The coordinates provided are for San Francisco, California, as a placeholder, but the actual location could be elsewhere with similar geography.


google/gemini-3-flash-preview

google

Score: 4393

Distance: 259km

Lat: 44.423984

Lng: 25.101837


The image displays a dirt road in a temperate forest environment with deciduous trees and ferns. The soil composition and vegetation are characteristic of the rolling hills and forested regions of Southern Romania. The overcast lighting and lack of specific road markings are consistent with rural Google Street View coverage in this part of Eastern Europe.


anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5

anthropic

Score: 3323

Distance: 817km

Lat: 43.2

Lng: 12.3


This image shows a rural dirt/gravel road with steep embankments and deciduous forest vegetation on both sides. The landscape characteristics, vegetation type, and road construction style suggest this is in central Italy, likely in the Umbria or Marche region. The green, lush vegetation and the style of the rural infrastructure are typical of central Italian hill country. The steep erosion patterns on the right embankment and the mixed deciduous forest are consistent with the Apennine foothill regions around central Italy.


openai/gpt-5-image-mini

openai

Score: 1961

Distance: 1872km

Lat: 43.052

Lng: -1.24


Rural, hilly gravel track through mixed broadleaf woodland with abundant bracken and ferns — vegetation and terrain typical of the Atlantic-facing Pyrenees/Western Basque hills. Road construction (narrow gravel track), gentle slopes and low stone-free soil also match pastoral footroads around Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port / western Pyrenees (approx. 43.05N, -1.24W).


MoonshotAI

moonshotai/kimi-k2.5

moonshot

Score: 1891

Distance: 1945km

Lat: 51.835

Lng: -2.651


The image depicts an unpaved gravel track winding through dense deciduous forest with bracken ferns on the roadside embankment. This type of forestry road and vegetation is characteristic of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, UK, which has extensive Google Street View coverage of its forest tracks. The overcast lighting and mixed broadleaf woodland with acidic soil indicators (ferns) support this temperate Atlantic climate location.


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.

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