VacationSelector

Alicante or Singapore?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Alicante
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 23 points.23
AlicanteSingapore
Score77100
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km3342
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteSingapore
Score6687
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8674,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteSingapore
Score4250
Museums within 10 km1457
Museums within 2 km of centre1126
Share of museums within 2 km %7946
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 23 points.23
AlicanteSingapore
Score5174
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4881,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km5477
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteSingapore
Score4034
Protected land share 50 km %71
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5953
Park area within 2 km60 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 26 points.26
AlicanteSingapore
Score4268
Tourist attractions within 2 km1328
Park area within 2 km60 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 40 points.40
AlicanteSingapore
Score2666
Notable places within 2 km18172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteSingapore
Score7170
Price level global60.862
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 25 points.25
AlicanteSingapore
Score8762
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months110
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
€178-205
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteSingapore
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation3 m21 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteSingapore
City population366,2215,866,139
People per km²1,8198,158
Museums within 10 km840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre52107
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.