VacationSelector

Singapore or Sydney?

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

Your match

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Sydney
64
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

SingaporeSydney
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 40 points.40
SingaporeSydney
Score10060
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km42160
Coast distance2 km7 km
Water distance2 km7 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 9 points.9
SingaporeSydney
Score8778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,1152,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 1 points.1
SingaporeSydney
Score5051
Museums within 10 km5744
Museums within 2 km of centre2620
Share of museums within 2 km %4645
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 1 points.1
SingaporeSydney
Score7475
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9732,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,3931,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7169
Nightclubs within 4 km77120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 24 points.24
SingaporeSydney
Score3458
Protected land share 50 km %110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5352
Park area within 2 km156 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
SingaporeSydney
Score6864
Tourist attractions within 2 km2837
Park area within 2 km156 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
SingaporeSydney
Score6660
Notable places within 2 km172123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 20 points.20
SingaporeSydney
Score7050
Price level global6290.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 19 points.19
SingaporeSydney
Score6281
Monthly daytime high30.6 °C to 32.4 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 329 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
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
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSingaporeSydney
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
2 h 40 m
€188-241
SIN · 17 km
6 h 5 m
€460-617
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
9 h 50 m
€671
SYD · 9 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
1 h 0 m
€85-88
SIN · 17 km
8 h 25 m
€419-457
SYD · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
MelbourneAVV, MEL, MEB
7 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
1 h 35 m
€125-169
SYD · 9 km
JakartaCGK, HLP
1 h 40 m
€145-152
SIN · 17 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
9 h 55 m
€539-575
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
8 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSingaporeSydney
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard ChineseEnglish
CurrencySingapore Dollar (SGD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 999, ambulance 995, fire 995000
Elevation21 m6 m
Main airportSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSingaporeSydney
City population5,866,1395,450,496
People per km²8,158449
Museums within 10 km4038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre10779
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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. 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. 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. 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.