VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Singapore?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

AmsterdamSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 60 points.60
AmsterdamSingapore
Score40100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km3342
Coast distance24 km2 km
Water distance24 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamSingapore
Score8387
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9574,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4431
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 30 points.30
AmsterdamSingapore
Score8050
Museums within 10 km9857
Museums within 2 km of centre6926
Share of museums within 2 km %7046
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamSingapore
Score7074
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5431,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,0781,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7071
Nightclubs within 4 km11477
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 26 points.26
AmsterdamSingapore
Score6034
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8253
Park area within 2 km49 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam and Singapore are level on 68.
AmsterdamSingapore
Score6868
Tourist attractions within 2 km7428
Park area within 2 km49 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 2 points.2
AmsterdamSingapore
Score6866
Notable places within 2 km196172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamSingapore
Score5870
Price level global79.262
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 5 points.5
AmsterdamSingapore
Score5762
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months00
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
12 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€85-88
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
15 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€188-241
SIN · 17 km
JakartaCGK, HLP
14 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€145-152
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
7 h 35 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

MeasureAmsterdamSingapore
Official languageDutchEnglish, 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 number112 or 911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation-2 m21 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamSingapore
City population921,4685,866,139
People per km²4,2088,158
Museums within 10 km10140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre98107
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.