Kuala Lumpur or Singapore?

297 km apart, in Malaysia and Singapore. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

• Kuala Lumpur Malaysia · best Jun, Jul
• Singapore Singapore · best Feb, Mar, Sep

Month by month

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

Before you go

• Cost of living — Kuala Lumpur: very cheap, about 32% of the United States; Singapore: moderate, about 60% of the United States.
• Currency — Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian ringgit; Singapore: Singapore dollar.
• Plugs — Kuala Lumpur: type G, 240 V; Singapore: type G, 230 V.
• Driving — Kuala Lumpur: on the left; Singapore: on the left.
• Travel advice — Kuala Lumpur: avoid all but essential travel to parts; Singapore: no advice against travel.

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

297 km as the crow flies, about 1h 17m in the air.Nonstop, about 43 a day · 7 airlines. By road, 360 km and about 3h 57m.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

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Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.