VacationSelector

Barcelona or Singapore?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

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

Singapore
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BarcelonaSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 35 points.35
BarcelonaSingapore
Score65100
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km2042
Coast distance2 km2 km
Water distance2 km2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 3 points.3
BarcelonaSingapore
Score9087
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,7864,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4131
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 18 points.18
BarcelonaSingapore
Score6850
Museums within 10 km10557
Museums within 2 km of centre4926
Share of museums within 2 km %4746
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 8 points.8
BarcelonaSingapore
Score8274
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7111,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,6411,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6171
Nightclubs within 4 km24577
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 16 points.16
BarcelonaSingapore
Score5034
Protected land share 50 km %101
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5153
Park area within 2 km49 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 3 points.3
BarcelonaSingapore
Score6568
Tourist attractions within 2 km6028
Park area within 2 km49 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 7 points.7
BarcelonaSingapore
Score7366
Notable places within 2 km258172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 1 points.1
BarcelonaSingapore
Score7170
Price level global60.862
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 16 points.16
BarcelonaSingapore
Score7862
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months50
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
€121-137
BCN · 13 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
€282-445
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
8 h 0 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

MeasureBarcelonaSingapore
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
Elevation9 m21 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaSingapore
City population1,731,6495,866,139
People per km²17,0948,158
Museums within 10 km9540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre128107
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.