Singapore
You can be here in February for about €767, 4 days, direct.
Why now
Good time in February: 30°C days, 20 rainy days.
The weather barely changes, so timing is about events: the Formula 1 race week sends hotel rates up sharply, Chinese New Year closes many hawker stalls, and the haze from Indonesian fires can arrive in the dry months. Long weekends bring Malaysians in and Singaporeans out.
Best months here: January, February, September. Daytime highs, sea temperature and rainy days from three years of Open-Meteo reanalysis; a rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, which is the WMO threshold and not the same as "it drizzled". This page stands for a whole country, and its weather is measured at one point — 1.35°, 103.82°, near Singapore. Somewhere else in Singapore the numbers will differ.
The place
Singapore is a city-state that works: air-conditioned, orderly, expensive, with the best cheap food in Asia served in hawker centres run by the state. Under the malls and towers there are shophouse districts, a rainforest reserve and a serious contemporary art scene. It suits stopovers and people who want tropical Asia with the friction removed.
What you can do
- 01Eat at Maxwell, Tiong Bahru and Old Airport Road hawker centres; chicken rice, char kway teow, laksa.
- 02Walk Tiong Bahru's 1930s flats, then Chinatown's shophouses to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple.
- 03See Gardens by the Bay's Cloud Forest, then cross to the Marina Bay Sands skypark or the free rooftop bars.
- 04Spend a morning at the National Gallery in the old Supreme Court and City Hall.
- 05Walk the MacRitchie treetop trail or Bukit Timah's rainforest before the heat.
Where to stay · neighbourhoods
Chinatown, Tanjong Pagar or Kampong Glam for walking and food; Orchard Road only for shopping, and Sentosa only for a resort weekend.
Unusual things
- ◦Pulau Ubin, a kampong island reached by bumboat from Changi Point, cycled on dirt tracks to the Chek Jawa wetlands.
- ◦Haw Par Villa, a 1930s theme park of Chinese mythology with the Ten Courts of Hell dioramas, on the Circle line.
- ◦Gillman Barracks' galleries in old army buildings, and the Southern Ridges walk beyond them.
Day trips
Flight options
Routes come from OpenFlights (historical) and a 2026 route reference compiled from public timetables. Durations are the published schedule where we have it, otherwise a block-time model fitted on measured nonstop flights. Verify schedules with the airline before booking.
Entry requirements · IT passport
Source: passport-index-data, March 2026 (coarse indicator), covering 258 of our 268 destinations for each of 199 passports. Always confirm with the destination's official site.
Airports
Distances are centre to airport derived · nonstop counts are our route reference for 2026, not every flight that exists.
Local transport
- Airport to city
- MRT, 45 min, ~€1.50
- Car needed?
- No — walkable or good public transport
- Getting around
- The MRT reaches nearly everything and accepts contactless bank cards; taxis and Grab are reliable. Changi airport is 30 minutes by MRT to the centre, and the Jewel mall makes long layovers bearable.
- Clock
- Same time as Kuala Lumpur (Asia/Singapore) derived
- Daylight
- 12.1 hours of daylight in February · sunrise 07:17, sunset 19:21 derived
- Currency
- SGD
Good to know
Drug laws carry the death penalty and fines apply to chewing gum, jaywalking and eating on the MRT; vaping is illegal and devices are confiscated.
Alternatives at a similar price
Whole trip per person for 4 days from Kuala Lumpur in February, then the flight time; estimates, like the total above.
Hong Kong
Luxor
Sharm El Sheikh
Taipei
Hurghada
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