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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’s own page.

Choose Singapore for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • families

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. Los Angeles 60, Singapore 40: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Singapore 62: Los Angeles leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Singapore 50: Los Angeles leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Singapore 45: Los Angeles leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Singapore 25: Los Angeles leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 67 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Singapore 76: Los Angeles leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Singapore 25: Singapore leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Singapore 50: Los Angeles leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Singapore 40: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Singapore.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
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.

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 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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Los AngelesSingapore

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre177 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 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 km3940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.