VacationSelector

Singapore or Vancouver?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

SingaporeVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 40 points.40
SingaporeVancouver
Score10060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km42109
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 13 points.13
SingaporeVancouver
Score8774
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,1151,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 16 points.16
SingaporeVancouver
Score5034
Museums within 10 km5727
Museums within 2 km of centre2615
Share of museums within 2 km %4656
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 17 points.17
SingaporeVancouver
Score7457
Drinking venues within 4 km1,973848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,393602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7171
Nightclubs within 4 km7744
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 43 points.43
SingaporeVancouver
Score3477
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5360
Park area within 2 km156 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 15 points.15
SingaporeVancouver
Score6853
Tourist attractions within 2 km2815
Park area within 2 km156 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 18 points.18
SingaporeVancouver
Score6648
Notable places within 2 km17263
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 16 points.16
SingaporeVancouver
Score7054
Price level global6284
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 9 points.9
SingaporeVancouver
Score6253
Monthly daytime high30.6 °C to 32.4 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 329 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSingaporeVancouver
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
10 h 20 m
€629-762
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 40 m
€240-261
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
10 h 40 m
€681-795
YVR · 9 km
ManilaMNL
3 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SydneySYD, WSI
8 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
16 h 40 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 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

MeasureSingaporeVancouver
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard ChineseFrench, English
CurrencySingapore Dollar (SGD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 999, ambulance 995, fire 995911
Elevation21 m2 m
Main airportSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSingaporeVancouver
City population5,866,139662,248
People per km²8,1585,759
Museums within 10 km4026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre10785
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.