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The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Singapore or St. Pete Beach?

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 Singapore for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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. Singapore 40, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Singapore 88, St. Pete Beach 40: Singapore leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Singapore 62, St. Pete Beach 18: Singapore leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Singapore 50, St. Pete Beach 28: Singapore leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Singapore 45, St. Pete Beach 57: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Singapore 25, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Singapore 88, St. Pete Beach 72: Singapore leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Singapore 92, St. Pete Beach 30: Singapore leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Singapore 76, St. Pete Beach 20: Singapore leads by 56 points.
Affordability. Singapore 25, St. Pete Beach 32: St. Pete Beach leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Singapore 50, St. Pete Beach 20: Singapore leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Singapore 40, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Singapore and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSingaporeSt. Pete Beach
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese-
CurrencySingapore Dollar (SGD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 999, ambulance 995, fire 995911
Elevation21 m2 m
Main airportSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSingaporeSt. Pete Beach
City population5,866,1398,879
People per km²8,158173
Museums within 10 km402
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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. 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.