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The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Berlin or Siena?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Berlin for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Berlin’s own page.

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Siena’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Berlin 38, Siena 14: Berlin leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Berlin 66, Siena 62: Berlin leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Berlin 86, Siena 78: Berlin leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Berlin 98, Siena 27: Berlin leads by 71 points.
Nature & outdoors. Berlin 50, Siena 65: Siena leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Berlin 66, Siena 94: Siena leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Berlin 76, Siena 38: Berlin leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Berlin 82, Siena 60: Berlin leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Berlin 68, Siena 35: Berlin leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Berlin 48, Siena 42: Berlin leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Berlin 90, Siena 36: Berlin leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Berlin and Siena are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Berlin and Siena.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Berlin
Best match
69match

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

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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

Siena has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBerlinSiena
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
Elevation34 m322 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinSiena
City population3,700,57752,812
People per km²4,153446
Museums within 10 km15730
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. 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 figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.