VacationSelector

Kathmandu or Singapore?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Singapore

Photo: Kai Kai, Pexels License

Your match

Kathmandu
48
match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

KathmanduSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 36 points.36
Food & drink. Singapore leads by 33 points.33
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 20 points.20
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 14 points.14
Nature & outdoors. Kathmandu leads by 25 points.25
Day trips. Kathmandu leads by 31 points.31
Good for families. Singapore leads by 68 points.68
Getting around. Singapore leads by 67 points.67
Shopping & style. Singapore leads by 21 points.21
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 72 points.72
Live music & performing arts. Singapore leads by 22 points.22
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu leads by 5 points.5
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kathmandu and Singapore.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyKathmanduSingapore
Daytime high29 °C31 °C
Night-time low20 °C25 °C
Rainfall in the month384 mm145 mm
Sunshine4 hours a day6 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea30 °C
Daylight14 hours a day12 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Kathmandu
No coastline within reach
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKathmanduSingapore
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
4 h 30 m
€444-465
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
1 h 0 m
€85-88
SIN · 17 km
New DelhiDEL
1 h 40 m
€175-205
KTM · 4 km
5 h 35 m
€238-293
SIN · 17 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 15 m
€389-511
KTM · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€157-169
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 45 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
GuangzhouCAN
4 h 0 m
€434-523
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
3 h 45 m
€226-254
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 50 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 5 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
3 h 40 m
€240-261
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
MumbaiBOM, NMI
2 h 30 m
€228-260
KTM · 4 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Abu DhabiAUH
4 h 15 m
€415-478
KTM · 4 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
10 h 55 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureKathmanduSingapore
Official languageNepaliEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyNepalese Rupee (NPR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:45UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 100, ambulance 102, fire 101Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation1,300 m21 m
Main airportTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKathmanduSingapore
City population845,7675,866,139
People per km²17,1218,158
Museums within 10 km940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.