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Baden-Baden or Siena?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden

Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The cathedral facade, Siena
Siena

Photo: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Baden-Baden
50
match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Siena
51
match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Baden-BadenSiena
Beaches & swimming. Siena leads by 6 points.6
Food & drink. Siena leads by 17 points.17
Culture & sights. Siena leads by 26 points.26
Nightlife. Siena leads by 12 points.12
Nature & outdoors. Baden-Baden leads by 5 points.5
Day trips. Siena leads by 16 points.16
Good for families. Baden-Baden leads by 12 points.12
Getting around. Baden-Baden leads by 2 points.2
Shopping & style. Baden-Baden leads by 3 points.3
Affordability. Siena leads by 12 points.12
Live music & performing arts. Baden-Baden leads by 22 points.22
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden leads by 41 points.41
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Siena.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBaden-BadenSiena
Daytime high25 °C31 °C
Night-time low14 °C17 °C
Rainfall in the month117 mm53 mm
Sunshine8 hours a dayNo figure
Daylight16 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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M
A
M
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A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Baden-Baden
6
7
11
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
6
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Baden-Baden
107
99
106
79
119
104
117
102
91
109
113
122
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Baden-Baden
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Baden-Baden
2
3
5
6
7
8
8
7
6
3
2
1
Siena
No sunshine record

Where the figures come from

Siena's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Arezzo.

Siena's rainfall is measured 115 km from the centre, at Frontone.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBaden-BadenSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 72 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 72 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 51 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
GironaGRO
1 h 40 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 51 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
BariBRI
1 h 55 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FezFEZ
3 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
2 h 50 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

MeasureBaden-BadenSiena
Official languageGermanItalian
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 number112112
Elevation181 m322 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenSiena
City population56,95252,812
People per km²406446
Museums within 10 km1129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.