VacationSelector

London or Singapore?

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

Your match

London
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LondonSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 100 points.100
LondonSingapore
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km4742
Coast distance43 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. London leads by 1 points.1
LondonSingapore
Score8887
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3174,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4031
Museums & heritage. London leads by 22 points.22
LondonSingapore
Score7250
Museums within 10 km14857
Museums within 2 km of centre4926
Share of museums within 2 km %3346
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. London leads by 21 points.21
LondonSingapore
Score9574
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3271,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,4431,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4671
Nightclubs within 4 km31277
Nature & day trips. London leads by 6 points.6
LondonSingapore
Score4034
Protected land share 50 km %161
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9753
Park area within 2 km84 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 7 points.7
LondonSingapore
Score7568
Tourist attractions within 2 km8528
Park area within 2 km84 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. London leads by 23 points.23
LondonSingapore
Score8966
Notable places within 2 km649172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 16 points.16
LondonSingapore
Score5470
Price level global84.962
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. London leads by 1 points.1
LondonSingapore
Score6362
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
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
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonSingapore
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
13 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 0 m
€85-88
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
6 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
9 h 20 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

MeasureLondonSingapore
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
Elevation4 m21 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonSingapore
City population8,799,7285,866,139
People per km²5,5988,158
Museums within 10 km21540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre116107
Swim season, months above 21 °C–12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.