VacationSelector

San Francisco or Singapore?

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

Your match

San Francisco
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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 FranciscoSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 40 points.40
San FranciscoSingapore
Score60100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km4442
Coast distance2 km2 km
Water distance2 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
San FranciscoSingapore
Score8387
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,3594,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3931
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
San FranciscoSingapore
Score4450
Museums within 10 km5757
Museums within 2 km of centre2926
Share of museums within 2 km %5146
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
San FranciscoSingapore
Score6874
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4341,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9281,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km9777
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 26 points.26
San FranciscoSingapore
Score6034
Protected land share 50 km %171
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5753
Park area within 2 km45 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 11 points.11
San FranciscoSingapore
Score5768
Tourist attractions within 2 km4828
Park area within 2 km45 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 3 points.3
San FranciscoSingapore
Score6366
Notable places within 2 km147172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
San FranciscoSingapore
Score4370
Price level global10062
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 16 points.16
San FranciscoSingapore
Score7862
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm109 mm to 329 mm
Dry months70
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 Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
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 Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoSingapore
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
15 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MelbourneAVV, MEL, MEB
15 h 35 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
7 h 35 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 FranciscoSingapore
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
Elevation16 m21 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoSingapore
City population873,9655,866,139
People per km²1,4558,158
Museums within 10 km5040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre108107
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.