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The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Singapore or Telluride?

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

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • families

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

Choose Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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, Telluride 5: Singapore leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Singapore 88, Telluride 38: Singapore leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Singapore 62, Telluride 20: Singapore leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Singapore 50, Telluride 20: Singapore leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Singapore 45, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Singapore 25, Telluride 30: Telluride leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Singapore 88, Telluride 45: Singapore leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Singapore 92, Telluride 66: Singapore leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Singapore 76, Telluride 25: Singapore leads by 51 points.
Affordability. Singapore 25, Telluride 7: Singapore leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Singapore 50, Telluride 35: Singapore leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Singapore 40, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Singapore and Telluride.

Your match

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

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Telluride
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Telluride 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSingaporeTelluride
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese-
CurrencySingapore Dollar (SGD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 999, ambulance 995, fire 995911
Elevation21 m2,667 m
Main airportSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSingaporeTelluride
City population5,866,1392,607
People per km²8,1581,372
Museums within 10 km400
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.