VacationSelector

Bruges or Singapore?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BrugesSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 92 points.92
BrugesSingapore
Score8100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km142
Coast distance14 km2 km
Water distance14 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 30 points.30
BrugesSingapore
Score5787
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4434,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 7 points.7
BrugesSingapore
Score5750
Museums within 10 km3057
Museums within 2 km of centre2426
Share of museums within 2 km %8046
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 40 points.40
BrugesSingapore
Score3474
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2331,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8071
Nightclubs within 4 km877
Nature & day trips. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
BrugesSingapore
Score2634
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6553
Park area within 2 km59 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
BrugesSingapore
Score6068
Tourist attractions within 2 km5228
Park area within 2 km59 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 26 points.26
BrugesSingapore
Score4066
Notable places within 2 km40172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
BrugesSingapore
Score6070
Price level global76.262
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
BrugesSingapore
Score5662
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months10
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
5 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 94 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

MeasureBrugesSingapore
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation2 m21 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesSingapore
City population118,5095,866,139
People per km²8408,158
Museums within 10 km3840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre51107
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.