VacationSelector

Manchester or Singapore?

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

Your match

Manchester
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

ManchesterSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 72 points.72
ManchesterSingapore
Score28100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1042
Coast distance27 km2 km
Water distance27 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 19 points.19
ManchesterSingapore
Score6887
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8534,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
ManchesterSingapore
Score4250
Museums within 10 km2357
Museums within 2 km of centre1126
Share of museums within 2 km %4846
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
ManchesterSingapore
Score6274
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0291,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7921,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7771
Nightclubs within 4 km8277
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 2 points.2
ManchesterSingapore
Score3634
Protected land share 50 km %171
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %9953
Park area within 2 km63 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 36 points.36
ManchesterSingapore
Score3268
Tourist attractions within 2 km528
Park area within 2 km63 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 18 points.18
ManchesterSingapore
Score4866
Notable places within 2 km61172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 16 points.16
ManchesterSingapore
Score5470
Price level global84.962
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
ManchesterSingapore
Score5462
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months00
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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromManchesterSingapore
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
6 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
18 h 45 m
€835
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

MeasureManchesterSingapore
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
Elevation38 m21 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterSingapore
City population547,6275,866,139
People per km²4,7378,158
Museums within 10 km2840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre63107
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.