VacationSelector

Boston or Siena?

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

Your match

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BostonSiena
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 60 points.60
BostonSiena
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km64 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 41 points.41
BostonSiena
Score7332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3211
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 28 points.28
BostonSiena
Score4371
Museums within 10 km7955
Museums within 2 km of centre2751
Share of museums within 2 km %3493
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Boston leads by 41 points.41
BostonSiena
Score5817
Drinking venues within 4 km886142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5884
Nightclubs within 4 km431
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 34 points.34
BostonSiena
Score5319
Protected land share 50 km %123
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %77100
Park area within 2 km116 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 22 points.22
BostonSiena
Score5331
Tourist attractions within 2 km2813
Park area within 2 km116 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonSiena
Score5850
Notable places within 2 km11169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 25 points.25
BostonSiena
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 8 points.8
BostonSiena
Score5664
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
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
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
7 h 55 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
7 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 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

MeasureBostonSiena
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m322 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonSiena
City population675,64752,812
People per km²2,910446
Museums within 10 km5129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7425
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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.