How many days do you need in Singapore?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Singapore.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Singapore · 3 days Singapore
Best time: It is two degrees off the equator, so it is hot and humid every day of the year with afternoon downpours.
Marina BayDay 1
🌳9:30 AMGardens by the Bay
The Supertree grove and two conservatories, including a cloud forest built around a 35-metre indoor waterfall.
🚶 ~28 min · 🚗 ~4 min · 1.0 mi
🖼️1:00 PMNational Gallery Singapore
Southeast Asian art in the linked former Supreme Court and City Hall, with the rooftop worth the lift ride alone.
🚶 ~9 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.3 mi
🌳7:00 PMMerlion Park and the bay at night
The half-lion, half-fish mascot facing the water, with the whole skyline and the Sands hotel behind it.
The historic quartersDay 2
📍9:00 AMChinatown
Shophouses, a Buddhist temple holding a relic, and the Maxwell hawker centre a block away for breakfast.
🚶 ~48 min · 🚗 ~6 min · 1.8 mi
📍1:00 PMLittle India
Garland sellers, a 24-hour department store, and the loudest, least sanitised part of the city. Eat here.
🚶 ~16 min · 🚗 ~2 min · 0.6 mi
📍5:30 PMKampong Glam and Haji Lane
The Malay-Arab quarter around the sultan's mosque, with a lane of two-metre-wide independent shops beside it.
Green SingaporeDay 3
🌳9:00 AMBotanic Gardens
UNESCO-listed, free, and 160 years old, with a national orchid collection at its centre. Go early while it is cool.
🚗 ~8 min · 2.2 mi
📍1:00 PMTiong Bahru
A 1930s Art Deco housing estate turned neighbourhood of bakeries and bookshops, plus an old wet market upstairs from the food stalls.
🚶 ~29 min · 🚗 ~4 min · 1.1 mi
🌆5:00 PMSouthern Ridges walk
Ten kilometres of connected forest walkway and the wave-shaped Henderson bridge, high above the road. Sunset from here beats the observation decks.
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