VacationSelector

Lisbon or Singapore?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Lisbon
68
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Singapore
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.

LisbonSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 43 points.43
LisbonSingapore
Score57100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2442
Coast distance2 km2 km
Water distance2 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 7 points.7
LisbonSingapore
Score8087
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4964,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 20 points.20
LisbonSingapore
Score7050
Museums within 10 km12457
Museums within 2 km of centre5426
Share of museums within 2 km %4446
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 9 points.9
LisbonSingapore
Score6574
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2251,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9561,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km6577
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 22 points.22
LisbonSingapore
Score5634
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5453
Park area within 2 km77 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 1 points.1
LisbonSingapore
Score6968
Tourist attractions within 2 km8228
Park area within 2 km77 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Lisbon and Singapore are level on 66.
LisbonSingapore
Score6666
Notable places within 2 km169172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonSingapore
Score7470
Price level global55.962
Daily budget€109—
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
LisbonSingapore
Score7862
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months40
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 40 m
€227-271
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€222-263
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
€129-223
LIS · 7 km
13 h 5 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

MeasureLisbonSingapore
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation100 m21 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonSingapore
City population545,7965,866,139
People per km²5,4538,158
Museums within 10 km7840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre106107
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. 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. 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. 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.