VacationSelector

Ghent or Singapore?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

GhentSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 74 points.74
GhentSingapore
Score26100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km842
Coast distance32 km2 km
Water distance32 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 17 points.17
GhentSingapore
Score7087
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7644,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4931
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
GhentSingapore
Score5850
Museums within 10 km2457
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %8346
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 25 points.25
GhentSingapore
Score4974
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4461,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km2677
Nature & day trips. Ghent and Singapore are level on 34.
GhentSingapore
Score3434
Protected land share 50 km %71
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8753
Park area within 2 km84 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 18 points.18
GhentSingapore
Score5068
Tourist attractions within 2 km1928
Park area within 2 km84 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 20 points.20
GhentSingapore
Score4666
Notable places within 2 km55172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
GhentSingapore
Score6070
Price level global76.262
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
GhentSingapore
Score5662
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months10
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureGhentSingapore
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation12 m21 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentSingapore
City population272,6575,866,139
People per km²1,7288,158
Museums within 10 km3040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre83107
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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. 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.