Singapore or Stockholm: which climate?

Singapore (Singapore) has a tropical rainforest climate, whereas Stockholm (Sweden) has a warm-summer humid continental 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 Singapore and to Stockholm.

Singapore is warmer than Stockholm by 20.5 °C in annual average: 26.9 °C against 6.4 °C.

Singapore gets more rain than Stockholm: 2,098 mm per year against 562 mm.

Singapore gets 10.4 hours of sunshine per day on average, against 7.8 hours in Stockholm.

Stockholm has warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, against +0.9 °C in Singapore. Stockholm is therefore warming faster than Singapore. Both trends are statistically significant.

Singapore averages 1 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 0 frost days per year; Stockholm averages 0 and 118.

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

IndicatorSingaporeStockholmDifference
Mean daily temperature26.9 °C6.4 °C-20.5 °C
Average daily high27.9 °C9.3 °C-18.6 °C
Average daily low25.9 °C3.5 °C-22.4 °C
Annual rainfall2,098 mm562 mm-1,536 mm
Sunshine / day10.4 h7.8 h-2.6 h
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)1 d/yr0 d/yrnegligible
Frost days (< 0 °C)0 d/yr118 d/yr+118 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)274 d/yr117 d/yr-157 d/yr
Mean relative humidity82 %80 %negligible
Average peak wind19.0 km/h18.2 km/hnegligible

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.

Temperature month by month

Rainfall month by month

Singapore climateStockholm climate