VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Singapore?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

PhiladelphiaSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 100 points.100
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km142
Coast distance13 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score7787
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7144,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score6050
Museums within 10 km8957
Museums within 2 km of centre4826
Share of museums within 2 km %5446
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 15 points.15
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score5974
Drinking venues within 4 km9301,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5751,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km4177
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score4934
Protected land share 50 km %141
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8953
Park area within 2 km75 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 15 points.15
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score5368
Tourist attractions within 2 km1628
Park area within 2 km75 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score5466
Notable places within 2 km88172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score4370
Price level global10062
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 2 points.2
PhiladelphiaSingapore
Score6062
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall69 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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Daytime high, °C
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaSingapore
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ManilaMNL
16 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
SydneySYD, WSI
19 h 30 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Hong KongHKG
15 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
3 h 40 m
€240-261
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
JeddahJED
12 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaSingapore
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
Elevation12 m21 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaSingapore
City population1,603,7975,866,139
People per km²4,3398,158
Museums within 10 km5440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre75107
Swim season, months above 21 °C–12 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. 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. 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.