Bars

Singapore's best rooftop bars

Edited by Jamie 15 October 2026

Singapore's sunsets don't hang about. Get up high early and you'll catch the whole show.

Choose a rooftop for its view, not its height: the best seat on this list is whichever one faces the thing you want to look at, and the main compromise is weather you can't book. Arrive before sunset, take a seat facing west or towards the bay, and order something cold. Rooftop drinking here has three built-in rules – it's hot until it isn't, the rain arrives when it wants to, and the view is the reason you're paying what you're paying – and getting them right makes a very good weeknight.

The list runs from the very top, Nova at around 282 metres, down to Southbridge on a five-storey shophouse by the river, because sometimes being close to the city beats being above it. In between there are pool decks and teepees, a brewery with a Guinness record, a lounge on the National Gallery and the party at the top of Marina Bay Sands.

Most are 18-plus or stricter, so leave the kids with the grandparents. Happy hours are your friend; check each bar's times before you go.

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The collection

1. Nova
CBD
Go for the height and the party rather than a quiet drink. Nova sits on Level 63 of 1 Raffles Place, about as high as a rooftop bar gets here, under the building's glowing steel star, with DJ sets and a menu that runs to a mango sticky highball and tom yum fries. Being in Raffles Place, it works straight from the office. Arrive before sunset if the view is the point, because once the DJ gets going the room becomes the show.
2. Skai Bar
Civic District
The one for the Civic District view: Level 70 of Swissôtel The Stamford, looking down from the Padang to Marina Bay. Book ahead and ask for a window, since that view is the reason to choose it over the others. The cocktail list is built on 12 horoscope drinks mixing Korean and Singaporean flavours; order your own sign, or the one that sounds least like a dare. It suits a drink before dinner rather than a long night.
3. Lantern
Marina Bay
The bay view at its most familiar, and the best reason to leave work early. The Fullerton Bay Hotel's rooftop takes its name from Clifford Pier's old Chinese name, Red Lantern Pier, and the deck faces Marina Bay Sands across the water. The hook is the weekday afternoon happy hour, called Skive Life (the name is doing honest work). Check it's running on the day before you tell your manager anything.

4. Southbridge
Boat Quay
The pick if you'd rather be close to the city than above it. A glass lift goes up a heritage shophouse at Boat Quay to a 360-degree view of the river bend, lower than anything else on this list and better for it on a still evening. Order a mixed half-dozen oysters before deciding anything else. Come early in the evening for sunset; a five-storey roof doesn't have many seats to spare.
5. LeVeL33
Marina Bay
The rooftop for beer people. LeVeL33 is officially the world's highest microbrewery in a building, 33 floors above Marina Bay, which is a very specific record and a good one to hold. Take a terrace seat, order a tasting of the house brews, and try the Champagne-yeast Brut if it's pouring. A tasting is also the sensible order for a group that can't agree on a drink, and the terrace keeps the bay in view while you argue.
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6. CÉ LA VI
Marina Bay
Go at night, and go for the party rather than the sunset. CÉ LA VI is the livelier sibling of Spago at the top of Marina Bay Sands, with an onyx bar, Asian-leaning cocktails and DJs on Saturdays. If you want the Sands view at dusk with a conversation attached, Spago is the better call; save this one for the after-dinner part of a big night, when the skyline is lit and the music makes sense.
7. Spago Bar & Lounge
Marina Bay
The calmer of the two Sands rooftops, and our pick at sunset. Level 57 has cabanas, cushions and sharing punch bowls, with the occasional swimmer from the infinity pool drifting past (the hotel guests are part of the view whether they know it or not). A punch bowl makes it a group plan rather than a date. Go a little before sunset, and move along to CÉ LA VI later if the night needs a second act.
8. Mr. Stork
Bugis
The rooftop to pick for a group that wants its own corner: around ten teepee huts in a rooftop garden on Level 39 of the Andaz. The cocktails lean fruity and floral, and there are two house beers brewed with Trouble Brewing for anyone who'd rather not. With only about ten teepees to go round, claim one early in the evening rather than hoping one frees up later.
9. Milli
Civic District
The rooftop for a culture night. Milli sits on the National Gallery's roof with the Padang below, and a Peranakan Spritz is the drink to order. It's lower than the towers on this list, but the Padang is a view the Raffles Place bars can't give you. Late hours make it as good after a show as before one, so keep it for an evening that starts or ends at the Gallery rather than as a sundowner.