Gallery afternoons, garden walks, markets and evenings out — ideas for every kind of day.
Typical spend per person, in Singapore dollars.
A five-hectare strip between two bridges most people cross without looking: the Kallang Gas Holder, otters by Stadium Link and egrets from September to March. Calm because it's overlooked.
The Ten Courts of Hell, explained at last, inside a museum on death and the afterlife at Haw Par Villa. Not for under-9s; the rest of you will talk about it all the way home.
A volunteer-run museum of ordinary Queenstown life: biscuit tins, bowling pins, a rescued neon cinema sign and more than 6,000 items gathered before the bulldozers came to Tanglin Halt.
One of Singapore's oldest Buddhist monasteries, completed in 1907 with craftsmen and materials from China. A National Monument among Toa Payoh's HDB blocks; give it an unhurried hour.
HDB’s 1979 terrazzo dragon, one of the few Khor Ean Ghee playgrounds still standing, sandpit included. Free and open-air: bring small children and a bucket in the late afternoon.
A dog-friendly park with a Victorian fort under the grass, one excavated bastion on view and a tree whose bark changes colour. Half an hour well spent; the playground is shut until 12 November.
A small Theravada temple off Ah Hood Road built around a three-metre Buddha, carved in Mandalay in 1918 from more than ten tons of marble. Twenty quiet minutes, well spent.
Two trips at one address: sunset in Ramadan for Singapore's best-known bazaar, and a quiet weekday the rest of the year for the building and the heritage gallery.
Breakfast at the food centre, then spices, cloth and traditional medicine under the same roof. Go in the morning with an empty bag, and come back in Ramadan to see it at full volume.
The Robertson Quay footbridge Pacita Abad covered in 55 colours and about 2,350 circles in 2004, her last major work, repainted in 2019. Free, and worth the detour on any river walk.
A print and paper workshop on Robertson Quay with its own paper mill and a free gallery showing what its artists in residence make. Check for a public workshop before you go.
The quiet side of Holland Village: former British forces quarters on Jalan Merah Saga, now cafés and shops a few steps from people's front doors. Come for an unplanned hour.
Don't buy everything. Our guide to the conservatory, the viewpoint and the ticket that suit one evening at the Gardens, and what to leave for next time.
A catch-up goes easier with a shared task. Choose pottery or climbing by the kind of concentration you want, and book a proper introduction rather than winging it.
