A pre-trip vaccination consultation plus jabs in Singapore in 2026 usually costs somewhere between S$50 and S$400 a person, depending on where you are going and which vaccines you actually need. A single typhoid shot is about S$49, hepatitis A is from S$101 a dose, Japanese encephalitis (Imojev) is S$325 a dose, and yellow fever (Stamaril) is around S$233. Most travel-specific jabs are not subsidised, so this is out-of-pocket money you should plan for the same way you budget flights and insurance. The good news: a few of the vaccines travellers ask for, like hepatitis B, MMR and Tdap, are subsidised for Singapore Citizens and PRs under the national schedule, so you may already be covered. This guide breaks down the real 2026 prices, which jabs you can get cheaper or free, the yellow fever certificate rule that can land you in a six-day quarantine, and how to time it all so you do not overpay or rush.
Travel vaccines in Singapore are priced per dose, and the total depends entirely on your destination. A short trip to Bali or Bangkok where you only top up hepatitis A and typhoid might cost under S$160. A longer rural trip to South Asia or sub-Saharan Africa, where you add Japanese encephalitis, rabies and yellow fever, can run past S$700 once you count the multi-dose courses.
The table below shows current per-dose prices from a licensed Singapore travel clinic as of early 2026. Prices vary by clinic and brand, and most include GST, but always confirm the all-in figure before you book. Private GP clinics, polyclinics and hospital travel clinics each price differently, so it pays to ask for the total, including the consultation fee, upfront.
| Vaccine | Typical price (SGD) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Typhoid | From S$49 | Single dose, good for ~3 years |
| Hepatitis A | From S$101 | 2 doses for long-term cover |
| Hepatitis B | From S$55 | 3-dose course; subsidised for SC/PR under NAIS |
| Influenza | From S$38 | Subsidised for SC/PR under NAIS |
| MMR | From S$60 | Subsidised for SC/PR under NAIS |
| Tdap | From S$59 | Subsidised for SC/PR under NAIS |
| Meningococcal (ACWY/MenB) | From S$109 | Required for Hajj/Umrah |
| Yellow fever (Stamaril) | About S$233 | Licensed centres only; certificate issued |
| Japanese encephalitis (Imojev) | About S$325 | Single dose for many adults |
| Rabies | About S$264 | Multi-dose pre-exposure course |
| Cholera (oral) | About S$273 | 2 doses |
A price is only useful once you know what you are buying. Some of these jabs are one shot that covers you for years; others are a course of three to five doses you have to start weeks ahead. Knowing the schedule up front stops you booking a five-dose rabies course the week before you fly, when there is no time to finish it.
The table groups the common travel jabs by how the disease spreads, how many doses you need, and roughly how long the protection holds. Use it to sanity-check what a clinic recommends and to work out whether your trip date even allows time for a full course.
One Singapore-specific point worth keeping in mind on rabies: the country has been rabies-free since 1953, so the risk is not here, it is at your destination. Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines still report cases, so if your trip involves rural areas, long stays or animal contact in those places, the pre-exposure course is the call to discuss with a travel doctor.
| Vaccine | Protects against | Doses | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typhoid (injection) | Typhoid fever (food and water) | 1 | About 3 years |
| Hepatitis A | Liver infection (food and water) | 2 (months apart) | Long-term after the 2nd dose |
| Hepatitis B | Liver infection (blood and body fluids) | 3 (over months) | Long-term, often lifelong |
| Japanese encephalitis (Imojev) | Brain infection (mosquito) | Often 1 for adults | Several years |
| Rabies (pre-exposure) | Rabies (animal bites and scratches) | 2 to 3 | Years; still need treatment after a bite |
| Yellow fever (Stamaril) | Yellow fever (mosquito) | 1 | Lifelong; certificate valid 10 days after |
| Cholera (oral) | Cholera (food and water) | 2 | About 2 years |
| Meningococcal (ACWY) | Meningitis (close contact) | 1 | About 5 years |
Here is the part most travel articles skip. Several vaccines that travellers ask for are not really travel vaccines at all. They are routine adult jabs on Singapore's National Adult Immunisation Schedule (NAIS), and Singapore Citizens and PRs can get them subsidised, or fully covered if you are enrolled in Healthier SG at your assigned clinic.
The NAIS-subsidised adult vaccines include influenza, hepatitis B, MMR, Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis), pneumococcal (PCV13/PCV20 and PPSV23), HPV, varicella (chickenpox) and shingles. If your destination calls for an MMR or Tdap top-up, or you never finished your hepatitis B course, you may not need to pay private rates at all. Healthier SG enrolees pay nothing for these at their enrolled polyclinic or GP, with the shingles vaccine being the one exception that still carries a capped fee. Eligible seniors can also tap MediSave for some of these under Flexi-MediSave.
Not enrolled in Healthier SG? You still get CHAS subsidies on NAIS jabs at a participating GP. MOH caps the dose price by card tier: Pioneer Generation cardholders pay S$9 to S$38 a dose, while Merdeka Generation and CHAS Blue or Orange holders pay S$18 to S$75 a dose. A flu or Tdap shot at those rates beats the S$38 to S$59 private price, and the gap is wider on multi-dose courses like hepatitis B. The CHAS card is worth sorting before you book if you do not have one.
What is not subsidised: the genuinely travel-specific jabs. Yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, typhoid, hepatitis A, rabies and cholera all sit outside NAIS, so you pay the full private price. That is the spend you actually need to budget for, and it is why getting your routine jabs done through a polyclinic or CHAS GP first can shave a real chunk off the bill.
Yellow fever is the one travel vaccine that is sometimes legally required, not just recommended, and getting it wrong has real consequences at the border. Under Singapore's rules, all travellers, including residents, who have been in a country with risk of yellow fever transmission in the six days before arrival must show a valid yellow fever vaccination certificate to ICA. The same applies if you spent more than 12 hours in airport transit in one of those countries.
The certificate, formally the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (the yellow card), becomes valid 10 days after vaccination and then lasts for life. That 10-day lag is the trap. If you get jabbed three days before flying out to a yellow fever zone and return within the window, your certificate is not yet valid on arrival back in Singapore.
Travellers who cannot produce a valid certificate when required are liable to be quarantined for six days from the date they left the affected country. That is a real risk to your trip and your wallet, so if your itinerary touches a yellow fever country, get the jab at least 10 days before you would re-enter Singapore. Yellow fever is only given at MOH-licensed centres that can issue the certificate on the spot, so you cannot just walk into any GP for it.
Children aged one and below, and people with valid medical contraindications, are exempt from the vaccine requirement but can still be subject to quarantine if unvaccinated. If that is your situation, sort the paperwork and a doctor's letter well before you fly.
You do not need every vaccine on the price list. The right shortlist depends on where you are going, how rural, how long, and what you will be doing. A beach resort in Phuket is a different risk profile from two weeks trekking in Nepal. The lists below are a planning starting point, not medical advice; a travel doctor sets the final plan based on your destination and health.
For most Southeast Asia trips (Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines), the common shortlist is hepatitis A and typhoid, plus checking your routine jabs are current. Japanese encephalitis comes in if you are doing rural or long stays during transmission season, and rabies if you will be far from a hospital or around animals.
These are the destinations young Singaporeans hit most, and the spend is usually modest if you stick to what you need.
This is where the bill climbs, because yellow fever, typhoid, hepatitis A and sometimes meningococcal all stack up, and you may also need malaria tablets (which are medication, not a vaccine, and priced separately).
Two of the biggest travel-health risks in the region have no vaccine you would normally get, so budgeting for jabs alone leaves a hole. Malaria is prevented by tablets, not a shot, and dengue has no widely used traveller vaccine, so for both you are relying on prevention.
Malaria prophylaxis is a course of tablets dosed by trip length and destination, started before you arrive and continued after you leave. The clinic prices it separately from vaccines, and the total scales with how long you are away, so a three-week rural trip costs more than a long weekend. Ask for the all-in tablet cost when you get your quote, and factor it into the same trip budget line as your jabs.
Dengue is the one most Southeast Asia travellers actually meet, and the defence is avoiding bites: repellent with DEET or picaridin, covering up at dawn and dusk when the Aedes mosquito is active, and air-conditioned or screened rooms. The same habits cut your chikungunya and Zika risk. Food and water hygiene does the same job for the stomach bugs that jabs only partly cover, so stick to bottled or boiled water and well-cooked food in higher-risk areas.
Most travel vaccines cause nothing worse than a sore arm. HealthHub lists the common reactions as pain, redness or swelling at the injection site, and sometimes a mild fever, chills, headache, muscle or joint aches, tiredness, or a swollen lymph node near the neck or armpit. These usually pass on their own within a few days, and the lymph node swelling within about a week.
For the aches and fever, paracetamol helps. The standard adult dose is 500mg, one to two tablets every six hours, and rest covers the rest. For children, check the dose with a pharmacist or doctor rather than guessing. This is one more reason to book four to six weeks out, not the night before you fly: you want any mild reaction behind you before you are at the airport, not mid-flight.
Seek medical help if you get a severe or fast-spreading reaction, trouble breathing, or symptoms that get worse instead of better. That is rare, but it is exactly why these jabs are given in a clinic rather than bought off a shelf.
Travel vaccines are not where you want to cut corners on protection, but there is plenty of room to avoid overpaying. The biggest lever is not paying private prices for jabs you can get subsidised or have already had.
Start by pulling your vaccination history on HealthHub. Singaporeans often already have hepatitis A, MMR, Tdap or hepatitis B from school or earlier travel, and a single booster is far cheaper than a full course. Then split your shopping: get the NAIS-eligible jabs at a polyclinic or CHAS GP to use your subsidy, and only pay private clinic rates for the travel-specific ones that are not subsidised.
Compare clinics on the all-in price, not just the headline per-dose figure. A consultation fee of S$30 to S$80 can swing the total, and some travel clinics roll it into the vaccine price while others add it on. If you need several jabs, ask whether they bundle. Treat the vaccine spend as one line in your trip budget alongside flights, travel insurance and spending money, and slot it into your monthly budget a few weeks ahead so it does not blow your travel fund.
The single most common mistake is leaving it too late. HealthHub recommends booking your travel vaccination consultation four to six weeks before departure, and there are practical reasons for that window.
Some vaccines need a series of doses spread over weeks to give full protection, so you cannot squeeze hepatitis A and B or rabies into the final days. Vaccines also take time to become effective after the jab, and yellow fever specifically only counts 10 days after vaccination. Leaving early also gives you room to handle any mild side effects before you fly and to get a second dose if your doctor recommends it.
If your trip is imminent and you have missed the ideal window, still see a travel doctor. Single-dose options like typhoid and Imojev for Japanese encephalitis can be given closer to departure, and getting partial protection beats none. Book the consultation, do not just walk in expecting a one-stop fix.
You have three main options, each at a different price and convenience point. Pick based on what you need and how much you want to spend.
Polyclinics and CHAS GP clinics are the cheapest route for NAIS-subsidised jabs, and you book through vaccine.gov.sg. They handle routine adult vaccines and some travel ones, but not all carry yellow fever. Private GP and travel clinics (chains like Healthway, Parkway Shenton and dedicated travel clinics) cover the full travel range, offer same-day appointments and issue certificates, but you pay private rates. Hospital travel clinics and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases handle complex itineraries, immunocompromised travellers and unusual destinations.
For yellow fever specifically, you must go to an MOH-licensed centre that can issue the official certificate. Confirm the clinic is licensed for it before you book, rather than discovering on the day that they cannot stamp your yellow card.
| Venue | Cost level | Travel-specific jabs | Certificates | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polyclinic / CHAS GP | Lowest (subsidised routine jabs) | Limited range | No yellow fever | Routine NAIS jabs on a subsidy |
| Private GP / travel clinic | Private rates | Full range | Yes, if MOH-licensed | One-stop, same-day, full itineraries |
| Hospital / NCID travel clinic | Higher | Full range plus specialist advice | Yes | Complex trips, health conditions, rare destinations |
Budget roughly S$50 to S$400 a person for a typical trip in 2026, depending on destination. A typhoid shot is about S$49, hepatitis A from S$101 a dose, Japanese encephalitis (Imojev) about S$325, and yellow fever (Stamaril) around S$233. Longer trips needing several multi-dose courses can exceed S$700. Most travel-specific jabs are not subsidised, so this is out-of-pocket.
Some are. Routine adult vaccines on the National Adult Immunisation Schedule (flu, hepatitis B, MMR, Tdap, pneumococcal, HPV, varicella, shingles) are subsidised for Singapore Citizens and PRs, and free for Healthier SG enrolees at their assigned clinic. But travel-specific jabs like yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, typhoid, hepatitis A, rabies and cholera are not subsidised, so you pay the full private price for those.
Only if you have been in a country with yellow fever transmission risk in the six days before arrival, or spent more than 12 hours in airport transit there. In that case all travellers, including residents, must show a valid yellow fever certificate to ICA. The certificate becomes valid 10 days after vaccination and lasts for life. Without it, you can be quarantined for six days.
Book your consultation four to six weeks before departure. Some vaccines need multiple doses spread over weeks, and all take time to become effective. Yellow fever specifically only counts 10 days after the jab. If your trip is sooner, still see a travel doctor; single-dose options like typhoid and Imojev can be given closer to departure for partial protection.
Polyclinics and CHAS GP clinics (book via vaccine.gov.sg) are cheapest for subsidised routine jabs. Private GP and travel clinics cover the full travel range with same-day appointments and certificates at private rates. Hospital travel clinics and NCID handle complex itineraries. Yellow fever must be done at an MOH-licensed centre that can issue the official certificate.
For most trips to Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia or the Philippines, the common shortlist is hepatitis A and typhoid, plus checking your routine jabs (MMR, Tdap) are current. Japanese encephalitis is added for rural or long stays during transmission season, and rabies if you will be far from a hospital or around animals. A travel doctor confirms the final plan for your specific trip.
MediSave can be used for nationally recommended adult vaccines under NAIS (such as influenza and pneumococcal for eligible groups), claimable under the MediSave 500/700 outpatient limit, and those aged 60 and above can also tap Flexi-MediSave. But travel-specific vaccines outside the national schedule, like yellow fever, typhoid and Japanese encephalitis, are generally paid out of pocket. Confirm coverage with the clinic before you book.
Most cause nothing worse than a sore, red or swollen arm, and sometimes a mild fever, chills, headache, body aches, tiredness or a swollen lymph node near the neck or armpit. HealthHub says these usually settle within a few days, and lymph node swelling within about a week. Paracetamol (500mg, one to two tablets every six hours for adults) and rest help; check children's doses with a pharmacist. See a doctor for any severe or worsening reaction or trouble breathing.
Generally no. Standard Singapore travel insurance covers medical emergencies, trip cancellation and the like while you are away, not the cost of getting vaccinated before you go. Treat your jabs as a separate pre-trip cost. Travel insurance still matters for what happens overseas, so sort both: budget the vaccines, and pick a policy for the trip itself.
It varies by vaccine. A typhoid injection lasts about 3 years and a meningococcal ACWY shot about 5 years. Hepatitis A gives long-term protection after the second dose, and hepatitis B is often lifelong after the full course. Japanese encephalitis lasts several years, oral cholera about 2 years, and yellow fever is lifelong (the certificate counts from 10 days after the jab). Rabies pre-exposure lasts years but you still need treatment after any bite.
Malaria is prevented by tablets, not a jab, so it is priced separately from your vaccines. Whether you need them depends on the destination and how rural you go; a travel doctor decides. The course is dosed by trip length, started before you arrive and continued after you leave, so a longer trip costs more. Ask the clinic for the all-in tablet price and add it to your trip budget alongside the jabs.
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