VacationSelector

Singapore or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
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.

SingaporeThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 45 points.45
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score10055
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km424
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 37 points.37
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score8750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,115640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3115
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 1 points.1
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score5049
Museums within 10 km5734
Museums within 2 km of centre2622
Share of museums within 2 km %4665
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 7 points.7
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score7467
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9731,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,393805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7157
Nightclubs within 4 km7761
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score3465
Protected land share 50 km %125
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5383
Park area within 2 km156 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score6841
Tourist attractions within 2 km2816
Park area within 2 km156 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score6656
Notable places within 2 km17298
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score7074
Price level global6255.8
Daily budget—€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 10 points.10
SingaporeThessaloniki
Score6272
Monthly daytime high30.6 °C to 32.4 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 329 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSingaporeThessaloniki
AthensATH
11 h 20 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureSingaporeThessaloniki
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard ChineseGreek
CurrencySingapore Dollar (SGD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 999, ambulance 995, fire 995112
Elevation21 m6 m
Main airportSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureSingaporeThessaloniki
City population5,866,139309,617
People per km²8,15816,042
Museums within 10 km4031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre10745
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.