VacationSelector

Chicago or Singapore?

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

Your match

Chicago
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

ChicagoSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 47 points.47
ChicagoSingapore
Score53100
Swim season months112
Beaches 10 km1242
Coast distance10,000 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
ChicagoSingapore
Score8187
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1474,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3731
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
ChicagoSingapore
Score4650
Museums within 10 km4557
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %4446
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
ChicagoSingapore
Score6274
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1231,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7281,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km5177
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 4 points.4
ChicagoSingapore
Score3834
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km118 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 13 points.13
ChicagoSingapore
Score5568
Tourist attractions within 2 km1828
Park area within 2 km118 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 4 points.4
ChicagoSingapore
Score7066
Notable places within 2 km217172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
ChicagoSingapore
Score4370
Price level global10062
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 5 points.5
ChicagoSingapore
Score5762
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months00
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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoSingapore
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 0 m
€195-265
1 stop
ORD · 25 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
3 h 55 m
€250-272
1 stop
ORD · 25 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Hong KongHKG
15 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 40 m
€240-261
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
New DelhiDEL
14 h 50 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
5 h 35 m
€238-293
SIN · 17 km
Abu DhabiAUH
14 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 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 2026-08 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

MeasureChicagoSingapore
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation179 m21 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoSingapore
City population2,746,3885,866,139
People per km²4,5298,158
Museums within 10 km4340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre87107
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month12 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.