Prices in Singapore 🇸🇬

In Singapore, mobile data costs $0.63, coca-cola costs $1.55 and gasoline costs $2.47. That is 13 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in SGD, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Singapore imports more than 90% of its food, so grocery prices are set by shipping and wholesale markets rather than local farming. Fuel and vehicle costs are deliberately high as congestion policy, which is why petrol here sits near the European range despite low taxes elsewhere in the economy. GST is 9% and applies to groceries with no exemption. Singapore is one of the few high-income countries that taxes food at the full rate on principle, preferring to compensate lower-income households directly rather than through the tax code. It is the clearest case in the table of a country whose food prices are set almost entirely offshore.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$5.78	7.45 SGD	22 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	$1.55	2.1 SGD	6 min
Cappuccino	$5.15	6.61 SGD	19 min
Milk (1 litre)	$3.12	4 SGD	12 min
Eggs (dozen)	$3.69	4.73 SGD	14 min
Apples (1 kg)	$4.39	5.63 SGD	16 min
Gasoline (1 litre)	$2.47	3.17 SGD	9 min
Diesel (1 litre)	$2.75	3.52 SGD	10 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$23.50	30 SGD	88 min
Natural gas (100 kWh)	$19.10	24.4 SGD	72 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$11.61	15.6 SGD	44 min
Beer (330ml)	no data
Spirits (750ml bottle)	no data
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.63	—	2 min
A day's healthy diet	$2.83	3.7 SGD	11 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Singapore compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Singapore is most expensive for milk, where it ranks 1st out of 32 countries at $3.12, against a global median of $1.54.

It is relatively cheapest for mobile data at $0.63, which is 25th of 49, only 24 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is electricity (100 kWh), at roughly 88 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Singapore: 9% GST. Ordinary groceries: no food exemption; GST applies to groceries. Where these come from.

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Singapore prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Singapore?

Pricele publishes 13 everyday prices for Singapore, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.63, Coca-Cola $1.55, Gasoline $2.47. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.

What currency is used in Singapore?

Singapore uses the SGD. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.

What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Singapore list?

Of the 13 items priced for Singapore, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.63 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $23.50. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Singapore prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, Burger Parity, 2026, Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Singapore.