VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Singapore?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

Los AngelesSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 71 points.71
Los AngelesSingapore
Score29100
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km042
Swim season months012
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 21 points.21
Los AngelesSingapore
Score6687
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3374,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2231
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 1 points.1
Los AngelesSingapore
Score4950
Museums within 10 km6957
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %3346
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 20 points.20
Los AngelesSingapore
Score5474
Drinking venues within 4 km6601,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4321,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km6477
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 28 points.28
Los AngelesSingapore
Score6234
Protected land share 50 km %261
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8053
Park area within 2 km20 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 35 points.35
Los AngelesSingapore
Score3368
Tourist attractions within 2 km1128
Park area within 2 km20 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesSingapore
Score5466
Notable places within 2 km88172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
Los AngelesSingapore
Score4370
Price level global10062
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesSingapore
Score8762
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months80
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesSingapore
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
16 h 40 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
SydneySYD, WSI
14 h 50 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 55 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
16 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLos AngelesSingapore
Official language–English, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation106 m21 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesSingapore
City population3,898,7475,866,139
People per km²2,9948,158
Museums within 10 km3840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre46107
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). 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. 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.