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The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
San JoseThe Winchester Mystery House
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

San Jose 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 San Jose for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose’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. San Jose 30, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. San Jose 56, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. San Jose 36, Singapore 62: Singapore leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. San Jose 33, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Jose 72, Singapore 45: San Jose leads by 27 points.
Day trips. San Jose 78, Singapore 25: San Jose leads by 53 points.
Good for families. San Jose 65, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 23 points.
Getting around. San Jose 30, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. San Jose 48, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 28 points.
Affordability. San Jose 20, Singapore 25: Singapore leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Jose 38, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Jose 30, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Jose and Singapore.

Your match

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

San Jose
45match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors 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.

San Jose in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
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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San JoseSingapore

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan JoseSingapore
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
Elevation25 m21 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseSingapore
City population1,013,2405,866,139
People per km²2,1678,158
Museums within 10 km1940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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.

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.