VacationSelector

Beijing or Singapore?

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

Your match

Beijing
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BeijingSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 100 points.100
BeijingSingapore
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km042
Coast distance145 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 13 points.13
BeijingSingapore
Score6350
Museums within 10 km9557
Museums within 2 km of centre1526
Share of museums within 2 km %1646
Unesco sites within 50 km61
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Beijing leads by 1 points.1
BeijingSingapore
Score3534
Protected land share 50 km %31
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km143 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 9 points.9
BeijingSingapore
Score7768
Tourist attractions within 2 km4128
Park area within 2 km143 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km125
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 16 points.16
BeijingSingapore
Score5066
Notable places within 2 km69172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 9 points.9
BeijingSingapore
Score7970
Price level global4962
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 4 points.4
BeijingSingapore
Score6662
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months80
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBeijingSingapore
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
3 h 10 m
€312-367
PEK · 25 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 25 m
€217-253
PKX · 45 km
4 h 25 m
€244-390
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ChongqingCKG, CQW
2 h 20 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
5 h 45 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
1 h 0 m
€85-88
SIN · 17 km
HangzhouHGH
1 h 55 m
€151-193
PKX · 45 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 55 m
€151-190
PKX · 45 km
3 h 40 m
€240-261
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 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

MeasureBeijingSingapore
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation43 m21 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingSingapore
City population21,893,0955,866,139
People per km²1,3348,158
Museums within 10 km8340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre29107
Swim season, months above 21 °C–12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.