VacationSelector

Bordeaux or Siena?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

BordeauxSiena
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Siena are level on 0.
BordeauxSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance18 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bordeaux leads by 36 points.36
BordeauxSiena
Score6832
Restaurants within 2 km of centre975242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 16 points.16
BordeauxSiena
Score5571
Museums within 10 km3555
Museums within 2 km of centre1751
Share of museums within 2 km %4993
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Bordeaux leads by 31 points.31
BordeauxSiena
Score4817
Drinking venues within 4 km546142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7884
Nightclubs within 4 km321
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux leads by 32 points.32
BordeauxSiena
Score5119
Protected land share 50 km %353
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bordeaux leads by 14 points.14
BordeauxSiena
Score4531
Tourist attractions within 2 km2113
Park area within 2 km43 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxSiena
Score4550
Notable places within 2 km5169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 6 points.6
BordeauxSiena
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Bordeaux leads by 4 points.4
BordeauxSiena
Score6864
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 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
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
LyonLYS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€99-106
1 stop
BOD · 11 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 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 2026-09 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

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 centre94 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxSiena
City population267,99152,812
People per km²5,425446
Museums within 10 km1829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8125

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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. 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.