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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Puerto Plata 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 Puerto Plata for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Singapore for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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. Puerto Plata 80, Singapore 40: Puerto Plata leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Singapore 62: Singapore leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Singapore 45: Puerto Plata leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Singapore 25: Puerto Plata leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Singapore 25: Puerto Plata leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Singapore.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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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Puerto PlataSingapore

Where the figures come from

Puerto Plata 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. Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataSingapore
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation34 m21 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataSingapore
City population-5,866,139
People per km²-8,158
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.