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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bordeaux 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 Bordeaux for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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. Bordeaux 50, Siena 14: Bordeaux leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Siena 62: Bordeaux leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Siena 78: Siena leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Siena 27: Bordeaux leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux 58, Siena 65: Siena leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Siena 94: Siena leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Siena 38: Bordeaux leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Siena 60: Bordeaux leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Siena 35: Bordeaux leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux and Siena are level on 42.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Siena 36: Bordeaux leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 40, Siena 55: Siena leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bordeaux and Siena.

Your match

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

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bordeaux in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
15 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. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxSiena
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1 m322 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxSiena
City population267,99152,812
People per km²5,425446
Museums within 10 km1830
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.