#things to do singapore october 2026

The Singapore Land Authority has confirmed this year's Kusu Pilgrimage Season runs from 10 October to 8 November 2026. Ferries leave Marina South Pier hourly from 7am, and the adult weekend fare is $18, down from $22 last season. Weekdays stay at $16 and children at $12.

The 37th Singapore International Film Festival runs 21 October to 1 November 2026 with 105 films and programmes, opening with Korean thriller The Assassin(s) at Marina Bay Sands. Tickets are $15 ($13 for students, NSmen and 55+), sold only on sgiff.com from 28 September at 12pm, and SG Culture Pass credits work for eligible local films.

Sacred Caves: Dunhuang, Buddhism, and the Silk Road opens at the Asian Civilisations Museum on Friday 25 September 2026 and runs to 7 March 2027. It is the first time life-size Mogao Cave reproductions travel to Southeast Asia. Singaporeans and PRs pay $10, seniors, students and children 6 and below go free, and a free Apsara blind box is up for grabs from 2 October.

Singapore's Oktoberfest season runs to 31 October, and in the last week the live options are Paulaner's beer hall, Brotzeit's closing weekend, Serangoon Gardens' $8 Paulaner bottles and a $18 community night. We re-checked every organiser's own page on 23 October 2026, so you can see what is still on, what it costs and what has already finished.

The Singapore Tourism Board published the Grand Prix Season Singapore 2026 line-up on 2 September 2026, and this is the half of race week you can do without a race ticket. GPSS runs 2 to 11 October, its 17th edition, alongside the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix on 9 to 11 October at Marina Bay. Three headliners carry it. The adidas Motorsport Popups split across Funan (adidas x Audi Revolut F1 Team) and Raffles City (adidas x Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team) from 28 September to 12 October, which is the longest window and the easiest weekday visit. Orchard Paddock 2026 is new, taking over Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza from 8 to 10 October with the Refuel Station open-air supper area, open-air movie nights, and an 8 October music line-up headlined by ALYPH and YAO with 53A, Reverie and Dreamsound. Ray-Ban presents: Beyond the Track returns to CQ @ Clarke Quay for a full fortnight, 1 to 14 October, with the Scuderia Ferrari Collection, race simulators, a pit stop challenge and a promised appearance by a Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 driver. The detail worth reading closely is admission. STB's annex states only two entries as free: INNERDRIVE The Performance Circuit at Plaza Singapura and Funan (free for all ages, 28 September to 11 October) and the F-LUX Art's Fluid Space exhibition at The Arts House (complimentary, 7 to 13 October). It flags the Marina Bay Sands Marquee afterparties on 9 to 11 October as ticketed. Everything else is given as a venue and a date range with no price attached, so confirm before you travel.

Halloween Horror Nights is back at Universal Studios Singapore for its 14th run — HHN14 — from 25 September to 1 November 2026 across 18 select nights (7.30pm–12.30am). Resorts World Sentosa has confirmed four all-new haunted houses (Karang Guni: The Cursed Collection, Singapore's Most Haunted: On Air, Made in Hell: XinLing Robotics and Chatterbox Charlie's Vaudeville Horrors), two scare zones (The RAVEyard and Necropolis: The Serpent's Crossroads), plus roving scares and the signature Scaremony opening show. The headline for deal-hunters: Super Early Bird admission from $58 (non-peak) / $68 (peak) in limited quantities — but only until 22 July 2026, after which prices step up toward the ~$78 standard gate. Tickets are sold via the RWS website and Klook; a normal daytime USS ticket does NOT include HHN. Below: the full 2026 lineup and every ticket tier (Frights-for-Two bundle, Frequent Fear Pass, HHN Express / Express PLUS, RIP Tour) with what's confirmed vs still to be announced.