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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Singapore for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • 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. La Romana 84, Singapore 40: La Romana leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Singapore 62: Singapore leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Singapore 45: La Romana leads by 17 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Singapore 25: La Romana leads by 27 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 32 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 68 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 48 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Singapore 25: La Romana leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Singapore 40: La Romana leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Singapore.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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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La RomanaSingapore

Where the figures come from

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaSingapore
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation10 m21 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaSingapore
City population139,2385,866,139
People per km²5128,158
Museums within 10 km040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

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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). 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.