VacationSelector

Melbourne or Singapore?

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

Your match

Melbourne
60
match

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

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

MelbourneSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 45 points.45
MelbourneSingapore
Score55100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1942
Coast distance4 km2 km
Water distance4 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneSingapore
Score7587
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8884,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2931
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 1 points.1
MelbourneSingapore
Score4950
Museums within 10 km4257
Museums within 2 km of centre2426
Share of museums within 2 km %5746
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Melbourne and Singapore are level on 74.
MelbourneSingapore
Score7474
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9211,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,2001,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km12477
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 9 points.9
MelbourneSingapore
Score4334
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8153
Park area within 2 km166 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 8 points.8
MelbourneSingapore
Score6068
Tourist attractions within 2 km2628
Park area within 2 km166 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 9 points.9
MelbourneSingapore
Score5766
Notable places within 2 km103172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 20 points.20
MelbourneSingapore
Score5070
Price level global90.262
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 14 points.14
MelbourneSingapore
Score7662
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneSingapore
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
5 h 50 m
€420-587
MEL · 19 km
2 h 40 m
€188-241
SIN · 17 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
8 h 5 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
1 h 0 m
€85-88
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
JakartaCGK, HLP
6 h 50 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€145-152
SIN · 17 km
SydneySYD, WSI
1 h 30 m
€119-126
MEL · 19 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
8 h 35 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€125-136
SIN · 17 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
10 h 55 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

MeasureMelbourneSingapore
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number000Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation31 m21 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSingapore
City population5,350,7055,866,139
People per km²5358,158
Museums within 10 km4240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre86107
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.