Porto or Singapore: which climate?
Porto (Portugal) has a warm-summer mediterranean climate, whereas Singapore (Singapore) has a tropical rainforest climate, according to the Köppen-Geiger classification.
The values compared here are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme. The same method and the same period apply to Porto and to Singapore.
Singapore is warmer than Porto by 12.1 °C in annual average: 26.9 °C against 14.8 °C.
Singapore gets more rain than Porto: 2,098 mm per year against 1,278 mm.
Singapore gets 10.4 hours of sunshine per day on average, against 10.0 hours in Porto.
Porto has warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, against +0.9 °C in Singapore. Porto is therefore warming faster than Singapore. Both trends are statistically significant.
Porto averages 11 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 1 frost days per year; Singapore averages 1 and 0.
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
| Indicator | Porto | Singapore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily temperature | 14.8 °C | 26.9 °C | +12.1 °C |
| Average daily high | 18.5 °C | 27.9 °C | +9.4 °C |
| Average daily low | 11.5 °C | 25.9 °C | +14.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,278 mm | 2,098 mm | +820 mm |
| Sunshine / day | 10.0 h | 10.4 h | +0.4 h |
| Hot days (≥ 30 °C) | 11 d/yr | 1 d/yr | -10 d/yr |
| Frost days (< 0 °C) | 1 d/yr | 0 d/yr | negligible |
| Rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 120 d/yr | 274 d/yr | +154 d/yr |
| Mean relative humidity | 79 % | 82 % | +3 % |
| Average peak wind | 17.4 km/h | 19.0 km/h | negligible |
A difference is only reported when it exceeds the resolution of the data. ERA5 is a reanalysis on a grid of about 31 km: two nearby cities often fall in the same cell, and below half a degree you are reading the grid, not the climate.