Tuesday · August · 11 · 2026
“Each day is the scholar of yesterday.”
— Publilius Syrus
Sun & daylight
The sun rises at 07:06 and sets at 19:16 in Singapore today, giving 12h 9m of daylight. Solar noon is at 13:11.
07:06
Sunrise
13:11
Noon
19:16
Sunset
Midnight
01:11
Sunrise
07:06
Solar noon
13:11
Sunset
19:16
Solar midnight
01:11
Daylight
12h 9m
Daylight runs about 12h 11m around the June solstice and 12h 2m around the December solstice.
Daylight saving time
Singapore does not observe daylight saving time. Clocks stay on UTC+8 all year, so the local time never shifts with the seasons.
Public holidays
Singapore has 2 public holidays in August 2026.
Architecture
Singapore builds vertically on a small island and writes greenery into its planning rules, so a garden on a tower is a requirement here rather than a gesture. The results are large, engineered, and unusually willing to give space back at the ground.
Completed 2021
Bjarke Ingels · Carlo Ratti
An office tower in the financial district with a garden cut through its middle. Bjarke Ingels and Carlo Ratti removed four whole floors of lettable area and left the frame open there, so the planting sits inside the structure rather than on balconies. Vertical aluminium fins run the full height and part where the garden shows through. Giving up the most valuable floors in the district is the decision the rest of the tower follows from.
Completed 2019
Moshe Safdie
A retail and garden building inserted between the airport terminals. Moshe Safdie roofed it with a toroidal grid shell of glass and steel that dips to an opening at the centre, where collected rainwater falls the full height into a basin. Planting is terraced up the inside of the dome, so the interior reads as a valley. It puts the landscape inside the roof rather than beside the runway.
Completed 2013
WOHA
A hotel and office building facing Hong Lim Park at the edge of Chinatown. WOHA moulded the podium into contoured concrete layers modelled on terraced fields, then hung planted sky gardens between the guest floors above it. The planting is held in the structure rather than applied to balconies, with palms and shade trees carried at every fourth level. It was built as an extension of the park across the street rather than as a neighbour to it.
Completed 2013
Ole Scheeren
A residential estate south of the centre, built as thirty one apartment blocks laid on their sides. Ole Scheeren stacked them six storeys at a time in a hexagonal arrangement, so each block bridges between two others and the roof of a lower one becomes the garden of an upper. The stacking leaves eight courtyards at ground level in place of the usual towers standing in a car park. It takes the standard Singapore condominium and turns its density sideways.
Completed 2010
Moshe Safdie
A hotel and casino complex on reclaimed land at the bay. Moshe Safdie split the hotel into three leaning slabs and laid one curved deck across all three tops, which turns three towers into a single figure. The lower halls spread as a podium of exhibition and retail volumes along the water. The building was designed to be recognised in silhouette before it was designed to be entered.