VacationSelector

Budapest or Singapore?

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

Your match

Budapest
60
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
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.

BudapestSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 100 points.100
BudapestSingapore
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km642
Coast distance10,000 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
BudapestSingapore
Score7787
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6994,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 14 points.14
BudapestSingapore
Score6450
Museums within 10 km14457
Museums within 2 km of centre6426
Share of museums within 2 km %4446
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 2 points.2
BudapestSingapore
Score7274
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7651,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,1681,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6671
Nightclubs within 4 km9777
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 6 points.6
BudapestSingapore
Score4034
Protected land share 50 km %81
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km111 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 3 points.3
BudapestSingapore
Score7168
Tourist attractions within 2 km7528
Park area within 2 km111 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 3 points.3
BudapestSingapore
Score6966
Notable places within 2 km206172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestSingapore
Score8070
Price level global4862
Daily budget€104—
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 2 points.2
BudapestSingapore
Score6462
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 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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A
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J
J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 30 m
€698-839
3 stops
BUD · 18 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
4 h 40 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestSingapore
Official languageHungarianEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m21 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestSingapore
City population1,685,2095,866,139
People per km²3,2098,158
Museums within 10 km8140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre86107
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.