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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Cardiff or Singapore?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cardiff for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’s own page.

Choose Singapore for

  • food and drink
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Singapore’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cardiff 30, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Singapore 62: Singapore leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff and Singapore are level on 50.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Singapore 45: Cardiff leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Singapore 25: Cardiff leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Singapore 25: Cardiff leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Singapore 50: Cardiff leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Singapore.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Cardiff
52match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on food and drink and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Singapore in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cardiff has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffSingapore
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation41 m21 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffSingapore
City population383,5365,866,139
People per km²2,7348,158
Museums within 10 km940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.