VacationSelector

San Diego or Singapore?

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

Your match

San Diego
58
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.

San DiegoSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 37 points.37
San DiegoSingapore
Score63100
Swim season months112
Beaches 10 km4242
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 24 points.24
San DiegoSingapore
Score6387
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8234,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2731
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
San DiegoSingapore
Score4450
Museums within 10 km5957
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %5146
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 24 points.24
San DiegoSingapore
Score5074
Drinking venues within 4 km6151,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4081,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6671
Nightclubs within 4 km3177
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 21 points.21
San DiegoSingapore
Score5534
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5253
Park area within 2 km308 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 7 points.7
San DiegoSingapore
Score7568
Tourist attractions within 2 km4028
Park area within 2 km308 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 26 points.26
San DiegoSingapore
Score4066
Notable places within 2 km40172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
San DiegoSingapore
Score4370
Price level global10062
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 26 points.26
San DiegoSingapore
Score8862
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months90
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
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. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoSingapore
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 30 m
€121-158
SAN · 3 km
16 h 40 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
50 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
15 h 45 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

MeasureSan DiegoSingapore
Official language–English, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation129 m21 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoSingapore
City population1,386,9325,866,139
People per km²1,4388,158
Museums within 10 km2640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre44107
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month12 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.