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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Medellin 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 Medellin for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Singapore for

  • families
  • getting around
  • beaches

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. Medellin 5, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Singapore 62: Singapore leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Singapore 50: Medellin leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Singapore 45: Medellin leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Singapore 25: Medellin leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Singapore 25: Medellin leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Singapore.

Your match

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

Medellin
51match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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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Where the figures come from

Medellin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinSingapore
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency number123Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation1,405 m21 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinSingapore
City population2,529,4035,866,139
People per km²6,6448,158
Museums within 10 km1440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.

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.