VacationSelector

Barcelona or Siena?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BarcelonaSiena
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
BarcelonaSiena
Score650
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance2 km64 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 58 points.58
BarcelonaSiena
Score9032
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4111
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 3 points.3
BarcelonaSiena
Score6871
Museums within 10 km10555
Museums within 2 km of centre4951
Share of museums within 2 km %4793
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
BarcelonaSiena
Score8217
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6184
Nightclubs within 4 km2451
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 31 points.31
BarcelonaSiena
Score5019
Protected land share 50 km %103
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 34 points.34
BarcelonaSiena
Score6531
Tourist attractions within 2 km6013
Park area within 2 km49 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 23 points.23
BarcelonaSiena
Score7350
Notable places within 2 km25869
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 3 points.3
BarcelonaSiena
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaSiena
Score7864
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months50
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
€121-137
BCN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€62-99
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 20 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
3 h 10 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBarcelonaSiena
Official languageSpanishItalian
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
Elevation9 m322 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaSiena
City population1,731,64952,812
People per km²17,094446
Museums within 10 km9529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre12825
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.