VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Siena?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

AmsterdamSiena
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamSiena
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance24 km64 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 51 points.51
AmsterdamSiena
Score8332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4411
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 9 points.9
AmsterdamSiena
Score8071
Museums within 10 km9855
Museums within 2 km of centre6951
Share of museums within 2 km %7093
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 53 points.53
AmsterdamSiena
Score7017
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7084
Nightclubs within 4 km1141
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 41 points.41
AmsterdamSiena
Score6019
Protected land share 50 km %213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamSiena
Score6831
Tourist attractions within 2 km7413
Park area within 2 km49 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 18 points.18
AmsterdamSiena
Score6850
Notable places within 2 km19669
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 10 points.10
AmsterdamSiena
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 7 points.7
AmsterdamSiena
Score5764
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months00
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 107 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€202-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€203-231
AMS · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAmsterdamSiena
Official languageDutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m322 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamSiena
City population921,46852,812
People per km²4,208446
Museums within 10 km10129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre9825
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.