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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Singapore for

  • food and drink
  • families
  • shopping

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. Edinburgh 22, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Singapore 62: Edinburgh leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh and Singapore are level on 50.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Singapore 45: Edinburgh leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Singapore 25: Edinburgh leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Singapore 25: Edinburgh leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Singapore 50: Edinburgh leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Singapore.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Edinburgh
56match

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

Singapore
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.

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 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

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEdinburghSingapore
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
Elevation47 m21 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghSingapore
City population488,0505,866,139
People per km²1,8848,158
Museums within 10 km3240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.