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The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Singapore or Zadar?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Zadar for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Singapore 88, Zadar 45: Singapore leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Singapore 62, Zadar 55: Singapore leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Singapore 50, Zadar 38: Singapore leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Singapore 45, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Singapore 25, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Singapore 88, Zadar 55: Singapore leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Singapore 92, Zadar 58: Singapore leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Singapore 76, Zadar 27: Singapore leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Singapore 25, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Singapore 50, Zadar 28: Singapore leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Singapore 40, Zadar 35: Singapore leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Singapore and Zadar.

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.

Zadar
51match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors 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

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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

Zadar 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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSingaporeZadar
Official languageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard ChineseCroatian
CurrencySingapore Dollar (SGD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 999, ambulance 995, fire 995112
Elevation21 m5 m
Main airportSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSingaporeZadar
City population5,866,13970,779
People per km²8,158-
Museums within 10 km401
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.