VacationSelector

Athens or Singapore?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Athens
68
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Singapore
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

AthensSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 52 points.52
AthensSingapore
Score48100
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km1442
Coast distance6 km2 km
Water distance6 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 18 points.18
AthensSingapore
Score6987
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4314,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2531
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 23 points.23
AthensSingapore
Score7350
Museums within 10 km12257
Museums within 2 km of centre7826
Share of museums within 2 km %6446
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Athens leads by 7 points.7
AthensSingapore
Score8174
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7181,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,3541,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5071
Nightclubs within 4 km13677
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 11 points.11
AthensSingapore
Score4534
Protected land share 50 km %51
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5053
Park area within 2 km128 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 3 points.3
AthensSingapore
Score7168
Tourist attractions within 2 km6828
Park area within 2 km128 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensSingapore
Score7566
Notable places within 2 km291172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 4 points.4
AthensSingapore
Score7470
Price level global55.862
Daily budget€125—
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 12 points.12
AthensSingapore
Score7462
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
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
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
9 h 20 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

MeasureAthensSingapore
Official languageGreekEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation74 m21 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensSingapore
City population643,4525,866,139
People per km²16,4998,158
Museums within 10 km8840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre82107
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.