VacationSelector

Aarhus or Siena?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Aarhus
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AarhusSiena
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusSiena
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km280
Coast distance0 km64 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Aarhus leads by 21 points.21
AarhusSiena
Score5332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2611
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 33 points.33
AarhusSiena
Score3871
Museums within 10 km2655
Museums within 2 km of centre2051
Share of museums within 2 km %7793
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Aarhus leads by 23 points.23
AarhusSiena
Score4017
Drinking venues within 4 km382142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8684
Nightclubs within 4 km151
Nature & day trips. Aarhus leads by 9 points.9
AarhusSiena
Score2819
Protected land share 50 km %23
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Aarhus leads by 2 points.2
AarhusSiena
Score3331
Tourist attractions within 2 km613
Park area within 2 km72 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 13 points.13
AarhusSiena
Score3750
Notable places within 2 km3369
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 16 points.16
AarhusSiena
Score5268
Price level global87.864.9
Daily budget€214€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 11 points.11
AarhusSiena
Score5364
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusSiena
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAarhusSiena
Official languageDanishItalian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m322 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusSiena
City population290,59852,812
People per km²3,193446
Museums within 10 km1729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3725
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.