Where to live in Singapore
We track one city in Singapore: Singapore. It averages 27°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €4,469 a month to live centrally. Singapore sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Malay
- Good English
- Safety
- 90/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 78/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~280 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore | major | coastal | 27°C | 2,639 mm | €4,469 |
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally.
Taxes
Singapore sits in our low to medium tax tier: moderate personal income tax. The tier applies to every city here, and couples who cap tax below it will not see these cities in their results.
Source: OurNextCity tax tiers, assigned by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation, with no fixed rate cut-offs. Coarse by design; not tax advice.
Residency and visas
Possible, with conditions. Realistic long-term residency runs through an employer-sponsored Employment Pass for skilled professionals, the EntrePass for active entrepreneurs, or the Global Investor Programme for high-net-worth investors; there is no retirement or passive-income visa and permanent residency is selectively granted.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Singapore:
- Investment: about $7.8M (Global Investor Programme Option A, SGD 10 million business investment (converted at SGD/USD 0.7815); as of June 2026)
For short visits, 164 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 34 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).