🇸🇬 Singapore or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
Singapore leads on food, getting around and cities. Egypt leads on value for money, the sea and nature.
A normal day costs about $150 in Singapore and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇸🇬 Singapore🇪🇬 Egypt
- Feb, MarBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $150A normal day$75
- 13h 5m to SingaporeNonstop from London5h 15m to Cairo
- Not the drawBeaches and seaVery good
- ExceptionalCities and cultureVery good
- ExceptionalFoodGood
- Not the drawNature and hikingGood
- Not the drawValue for moneyExceptional
- ExceptionalEasy to get aroundGood
- The MRT, cheap and spotless, you will not need a taxiGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- Nothing seasonal, but the haze can appear in some years around SeptemberWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
Pick by what you want
🇸🇬 Choose Singapore if
you want a short, effortless, very safe city stop with world class food, and you are pairing it with somewhere else.
🇪🇬 Choose Egypt if
you want the oldest thing on this list, a river trip through it, and Red Sea diving, at prices nowhere in Europe matches.
Full Singapore guide →Full Egypt guide →
And what the world thinks
🇸🇬 Singapore leads by 25 votes.
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Written and checked by hand. Nothing here about visas or entry rules: those change often and depend on your passport, so check an official source.