VacationSelector

Madrid 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, 2 points apart

Madrid
66
match

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

Singapore
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

MadridSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 100 points.100
MadridSingapore
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km442
Coast distance305 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
MadridSingapore
Score8387
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5084,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2831
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 25 points.25
MadridSingapore
Score7550
Museums within 10 km9757
Museums within 2 km of centre5926
Share of museums within 2 km %6146
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 7 points.7
MadridSingapore
Score8174
Drinking venues within 4 km2,4141,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,4981,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km34177
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 29 points.29
MadridSingapore
Score6334
Protected land share 50 km %191
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km187 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 9 points.9
MadridSingapore
Score7768
Tourist attractions within 2 km6128
Park area within 2 km187 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 9 points.9
MadridSingapore
Score7566
Notable places within 2 km288172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 1 points.1
MadridSingapore
Score7170
Price level global60.862
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 10 points.10
MadridSingapore
Score7262
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 45 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
DohaDOH
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
8 h 0 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

MeasureMadridSingapore
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation663 m21 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridSingapore
City population3,506,7305,866,139
People per km²5,8018,158
Museums within 10 km8840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre106107
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.