VacationSelector

Cape Town or Singapore?

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

Your match

Cape Town
57
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

Cape TownSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 40 points.40
Cape TownSingapore
Score60100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2942
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 20 points.20
Cape TownSingapore
Score6787
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6504,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4231
Museums & heritage. Cape Town leads by 4 points.4
Cape TownSingapore
Score5450
Museums within 10 km2557
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %8046
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
Cape TownSingapore
Score4774
Drinking venues within 4 km4831,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3891,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8171
Nightclubs within 4 km4777
Nature & day trips. Cape Town leads by 2 points.2
Cape TownSingapore
Score3634
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4253
Park area within 2 km27 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 32 points.32
Cape TownSingapore
Score3668
Tourist attractions within 2 km1928
Park area within 2 km27 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 21 points.21
Cape TownSingapore
Score4566
Notable places within 2 km51172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cape Town leads by 15 points.15
Cape TownSingapore
Score8570
Price level global40.562
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Cape Town leads by 24 points.24
Cape TownSingapore
Score8662
Monthly daytime high18 °C to 27.5 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall10 mm to 97 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months60
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
Cape Town
27
28
26
24
21
18
18
18
20
22
24
26
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Cape Town
18
18
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
16
17
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Cape Town
10
11
13
42
65
97
89
76
47
32
27
13
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Cape Town
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Cape Town
12
10
9
8
6
6
6
7
8
9
10
11
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. Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCape TownSingapore
JohannesburgJNB, HLA
2 h 10 m
€162-179
CPT · 18 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 5 m
€634-815
CPT · 18 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 40 m
€742-801
2 stops
CPT · 18 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 45 m
€632-724
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 35 m
€717-799
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 40 m
€611-615
1 stop
CPT · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCape TownSingapore
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation5 m21 m
Main airportCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre44 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCape TownSingapore
City population3,776,3135,866,139
People per km²1,5388,158
Museums within 10 km2240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre65107
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.