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Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Ottawa 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 Ottawa for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Singapore for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • getting around

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. Ottawa 35, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Ottawa 45, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Ottawa and Singapore are level on 62.
Nightlife. Ottawa 35, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ottawa 68, Singapore 45: Ottawa leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Ottawa 55, Singapore 25: Ottawa leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Ottawa 68, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Ottawa 62, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Ottawa 40, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Ottawa 40, Singapore 25: Ottawa leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ottawa 52, Singapore 50: Ottawa leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ottawa 55, Singapore 40: Ottawa leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ottawa and Singapore.

Your match

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

Ottawa
51match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on food and drink and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOttawaSingapore
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)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
Elevation70 m21 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaSingapore
City population1,017,4495,866,139
People per km²3668,158
Museums within 10 km2040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.