VacationSelector

Cancun or Singapore?

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

Your match

Cancun
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

CancunSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 3 points.3
CancunSingapore
Score97100
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km2342
Coast distance3 km2 km
Water distance3 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 33 points.33
CancunSingapore
Score5487
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6814,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1831
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 30 points.30
CancunSingapore
Score2050
Museums within 10 km157
Museums within 2 km of centre126
Share of museums within 2 km %10046
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 38 points.38
CancunSingapore
Score3674
Drinking venues within 4 km2701,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1751,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km3377
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 20 points.20
CancunSingapore
Score5434
Protected land share 50 km %91
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4553
Park area within 2 km66 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 36 points.36
CancunSingapore
Score3268
Tourist attractions within 2 km228
Park area within 2 km66 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 62 points.62
CancunSingapore
Score466
Notable places within 2 km5172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 6 points.6
CancunSingapore
Score7670
Price level global54.262
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 19 points.19
CancunSingapore
Score8162
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCancunSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 40 m
€319-382
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
5 h 55 m
€287-406
2 stops
CUN · 14 km
15 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 15 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
16 h 40 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
12 h 45 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

MeasureCancunSingapore
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation5 m21 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunSingapore
City population888,7975,866,139
People per km²–8,158
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre31107
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.