VacationSelector

New York 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

New York
66
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Singapore
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.

New YorkSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 36 points.36
New YorkSingapore
Score64100
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km1742
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 8 points.8
New YorkSingapore
Score9587
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0324,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3831
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 10 points.10
New YorkSingapore
Score6050
Museums within 10 km11957
Museums within 2 km of centre3126
Share of museums within 2 km %2646
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkSingapore
Score8974
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1591,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,0151,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4871
Nightclubs within 4 km19277
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 5 points.5
New YorkSingapore
Score3934
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6953
Park area within 2 km134 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 4 points.4
New YorkSingapore
Score7268
Tourist attractions within 2 km3728
Park area within 2 km134 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km75
Sights concentration. New York leads by 8 points.8
New YorkSingapore
Score7466
Notable places within 2 km268172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
New YorkSingapore
Score4370
Price level global10062
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
New YorkSingapore
Score5862
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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F
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A
M
J
J
A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkSingapore
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 20 m
€314-354
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ManilaMNL
16 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SydneySYD, WSI
19 h 30 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
12 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
9 h 20 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

MeasureNew YorkSingapore
Official language–English, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation25 m21 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkSingapore
City population8,804,1905,866,139
People per km²7,2568,158
Museums within 10 km15740
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre132107
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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.