Singapore MRT · official data through July 2026
The train is probably on time.
Your trip can still wobble.
Singapore’s latest official score says 99.29% of MRT trips finished within two minutes of schedule. That sounds like Japan—and at system level, it is in the same league. But this number is measured at the end of a line, not at your platform.
*End-of-line/turnaround, within 2 minutes. †2025 average.
01 / THE SHORT ANSWER
Singapore passes the Japan test—carefully.
In 2024, Singapore recorded 0.18 severe delays per million train-km. Tokyo Metro recorded 0.26; Nagoya recorded none. In the latest punctuality comparison, Singapore sat at 99.29% and Tokyo Metro at 98.00%.
But the clocks and definitions differ across cities. This is evidence that Singapore belongs among reliable metro systems—not proof that every Singapore train shadows a Japanese timetable.
02 / PICK YOUR LINE
Turn 99% into something you can feel.
Select a line. Each square below is one of 1,000 scheduled end-to-end trips, using July’s official punctuality rate. Amber squares finished more than two minutes late.
MRT network
99.29%
About 7 in 1,000 trips finished more than two minutes late.
What to do: Treat the published score as network context, not a personal arrival guarantee. Check service alerts before a time-critical trip.
03 / THE LONG VIEW
Reliability is high. It is not perfectly flat.
Annual end-of-line punctuality stayed between 99.35% and 99.65% network-wide from 2020–2025. Line-level variation is more useful than that calm headline.
04 / THE BAD DAYS
Rare does not mean small.
No conventional MRT delay exceeded 30 minutes from December 2025 through July 2026. Yet one North East Line disruption in August 2025 affected more than 50,000 passengers. The tail matters.
Twelve months of severe delays
Each column is one month. Marks are incidents over 30 minutes.
05 / COMMUTER RULES
Three habits beat one reassuring number.
- 01
Budget the transfer, not the train.
The official score is end-to-end. Walking, interchange queues and an irregular gap can dominate a short journey.
- 02
Check alerts when lateness is costly.
System reliability is excellent, but the rare disruption can affect tens of thousands at once. Aggregate history cannot tell you what is happening now.
- 03
Read “99%” with its fine print.
Punctuality means within two minutes at a terminal or turnaround. Service delivery means scheduled distance operated. Neither is your platform wait.
WHAT WE CANNOT SAY
No public history of every train arriving at every platform.
LTA now lists GTFS schedule and real-time train feeds, but the downloaded schedule descriptor’s signed data link had expired when checked. No API key was available here, and real-time feeds are not historical archives.
So this app does not invent station delay percentiles, waiting times or route-specific guarantees. A collector can add those later by archiving the new feeds.