Guide

Skydiving in Singapore, and where Singaporeans actually jump

Changi and Seletar are the only civil airfields and there is no spare airspace. The island has a wind tunnel at Sentosa; the nearest jumping is Thailand.

There is no outdoor dropzone in Singapore, and there is unlikely ever to be one. If you are searching for one, the useful answer is what the island does have and how far you have to go for the real thing.

Why there is none

Singapore has no uncontrolled airspace. Two airfields serve civil aviation, Changi and Seletar, and Changi is one of the busiest airports in the world; the remaining airbases are military. There is no spare airspace over a land area this size to run jump operations in, and no civilian airfield with a drop zone attached.

This is a structural constraint rather than a policy someone might be persuaded to change.

What the island does have

A wind tunnel at Sentosa, trading as AltitudeX and previously as iFly Singapore, checked 2026-09-24. A tunnel is a genuine training tool and it is not a dropzone: you get body flight, not altitude, exit, canopy or landing. Tunnel time counts for freefall skill and nothing else.

Naming it here is not a recommendation. It is the only such facility on the island, so a reader searching for skydiving in Singapore will find it and should know what it is and is not.

Where the nearest jumping is

Thailand is the closest active jumping to Singapore, roughly a two-hour flight. Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia all hold dropzones within regional reach.

Rather than list operators and prices here, which go stale within a season, look the country up in the directory and check the record's flags and date before you plan around it:

Prices, aircraft and opening days are operator-supplied and operator-dependent. Confirm them with the dropzone before booking a flight around them.

Budgeting a trip

Cost is dominated by the things that have nothing to do with jumping - flights, accommodation, ground transport and how many days of weather you lose. Jump tickets are usually the smaller half of a short trip and the larger half of a long one.

We do not publish a model trip budget, because the only honest version of one is a real receipt from a real trip. There is a first-person breakdown of what one AFF course cost in 2023, in Singapore dollars, at what my AFF course cost in 2023 - one person, one course, one provider, and not a price guide.