VacationSelector

Cologne or Singapore?

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

Your match

Cologne
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

CologneSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 100 points.100
CologneSingapore
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km4042
Coast distance256 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 15 points.15
CologneSingapore
Score7287
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1424,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 10 points.10
CologneSingapore
Score6050
Museums within 10 km4757
Museums within 2 km of centre2726
Share of museums within 2 km %5746
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
CologneSingapore
Score6474
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1071,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7271,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6671
Nightclubs within 4 km9077
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 37 points.37
CologneSingapore
Score7134
Protected land share 50 km %531
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km118 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 4 points.4
CologneSingapore
Score7268
Tourist attractions within 2 km4328
Park area within 2 km118 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km65
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 13 points.13
CologneSingapore
Score5366
Notable places within 2 km81172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
CologneSingapore
Score6070
Price level global75.962
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 2 points.2
CologneSingapore
Score6062
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneSingapore
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€174-186
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
5 h 40 m
no fares
CGN · 15 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

MeasureCologneSingapore
Official languageGermanEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation59 m21 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneSingapore
City population1,024,6215,866,139
People per km²2,5308,158
Museums within 10 km4040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre84107
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.