Neptune Atlas
Singapore to Rotterdam by sea: 8,398 nautical miles
Singapore to Rotterdam by sea is 8,398 nautical miles (15,553 km) through the Suez Canal. Without the Suez Canal it is 11,849 nautical miles round the Cape of Good Hope, 3,451 longer. The route also passes the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, Bab el-Mandeb, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Strait of Dover. The distance is the same in both directions, so this is also the distance from Rotterdam to Singapore. Ships on this route often carry containers.
| Route | Nautical miles | Days at sea at | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 knots | 12 knots | 14 knots | 16 knots | ||
| Through the Suez Canal | 8,398 | 35.0 | 29.2 | 25.0 | 21.9 |
| Round the Cape of Good Hope, without the Suez Canal | 11,849 | 49.4 | 41.1 | 35.3 | 30.9 |
Days are time under way at a steady speed. They leave out waiting, time in port and bad weather. The Suez Canal adds about 1.25 days for the transit and the wait.
Without the Suez Canal the voyage is 3,451 nm longer, which is 12.0 more days at sea at 12 knots. It is the dashed line on the map.
- Canals
- Suez Canal
- Canal time
- 1.25 days
- Inside emission areas
- 2,442 nm
- Straight line
- 5,688 nm
Emission control areas
2,442 nm of this route, 29 per cent, is inside an emission control area (ECA): North Sea and English Channel, 476 nm and Mediterranean Sea, 1,966 nm. An ECA is a sea area where a ship must burn fuel with no more than 0.10 per cent sulphur, or clean its exhaust. Either costs more than sailing on ordinary fuel.
The two ports
- Singapore. UN/LOCODE SGSIN, at 1.28 N, 103.85 E.
- Rotterdam, Netherlands. UN/LOCODE NLRTM, at 51.92 N, 4.50 E.
A UN/LOCODE is the United Nations code for a port. The straight line above is the great circle, the shortest line over the globe, which crosses land.
How this was worked out
Computed on 13 October 2026 by the sea router behind the Neptune Atlas voyage estimator. It searches a grid of navigable water built from public sea depth data, so the track goes round headlands and through straits. No draft limit was set and no area was avoided. Distance tables differ by a few per cent, because each one picks its own point for a port and its own track through straits. Use it for planning, not in place of a chart.
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Related routes
Other routes at Singapore
- Singapore to Suez4,968 nm
- Fujairah to Singapore3,313 nm
- Jubail to Singapore3,743 nm
- Shanghai to Singapore2,195 nm
- Singapore to Chittagong1,521 nm
- Singapore to Colombo1,607 nm
- Singapore to Durban4,902 nm
- Singapore to Hamburg8,622 nm
Other routes at Rotterdam
- Vitoria to Rotterdam5,066 nm
- Buenos Aires to Rotterdam6,435 nm
- Colombo to Rotterdam6,851 nm
- Fujairah to Rotterdam6,111 nm
- Guayaquil to Rotterdam5,706 nm
- Houston to Rotterdam5,054 nm
- Jebel Ali to Rotterdam6,294 nm
- Karachi to Rotterdam6,234 nm
Guides that go with this route
- Emission control areas: where they are and what fuel a ship must burn inside them.
- Bunkers and fuel grades: what a ship burns on a passage like this one.
- War risk areas: the listed areas and what a transit through one costs.