VacationSelector

Boston or Singapore?

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

Your match

Boston
55
match

Wins on 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.

BostonSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 40 points.40
BostonSingapore
Score60100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km6842
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 14 points.14
BostonSingapore
Score7387
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4524,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 7 points.7
BostonSingapore
Score4350
Museums within 10 km7957
Museums within 2 km of centre2726
Share of museums within 2 km %3446
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 16 points.16
BostonSingapore
Score5874
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5131,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5871
Nightclubs within 4 km4377
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 19 points.19
BostonSingapore
Score5334
Protected land share 50 km %121
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7753
Park area within 2 km116 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 15 points.15
BostonSingapore
Score5368
Tourist attractions within 2 km2828
Park area within 2 km116 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
BostonSingapore
Score5866
Notable places within 2 km111172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
BostonSingapore
Score4370
Price level global10062
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
BostonSingapore
Score5662
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
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
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBostonSingapore
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 35 m
€289-344
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Abu DhabiAUH
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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

MeasureBostonSingapore
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation43 m21 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonSingapore
City population675,6475,866,139
People per km²2,9108,158
Museums within 10 km5140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre74107
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). 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. 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.