VacationSelector

Singapore or Washington DC?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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.

SingaporeWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 82 points.82
SingaporeWashington DC
Score10018
Swim season months123
Beaches 10 km421
Coast distance2 km34 km
Water distance2 km34 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
SingaporeWashington DC
Score8777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,1151,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3136
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 5 points.5
SingaporeWashington DC
Score5055
Museums within 10 km5783
Museums within 2 km of centre2655
Share of museums within 2 km %4666
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 13 points.13
SingaporeWashington DC
Score7461
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9731,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,393593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7158
Nightclubs within 4 km7754
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 8 points.8
SingaporeWashington DC
Score3442
Protected land share 50 km %110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5394
Park area within 2 km156 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 30 points.30
SingaporeWashington DC
Score6838
Tourist attractions within 2 km287
Park area within 2 km156 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 10 points.10
SingaporeWashington DC
Score6676
Notable places within 2 km172305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Singapore leads by 27 points.27
SingaporeWashington DC
Score7043
Price level global62100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Singapore and Washington DC are level on 62.
SingaporeWashington DC
Score6262
Monthly daytime high30.6 °C to 32.4 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall109 mm to 329 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4
Washington DC
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSingaporeWashington DC
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
17 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
5 h 0 m
€226-372
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
15 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
5 h 5 m
€329-399
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
San FranciscoSFO
16 h 40 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
5 h 15 m
€284-334
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
JeddahJED
9 h 20 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureSingaporeWashington DC
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 m72 m
Main airportSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSingaporeWashington DC
City population5,866,139689,545
People per km²8,1583,896
Museums within 10 km4099
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre10782
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.