VacationSelector

Bucharest or Siena?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

BucharestSiena
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Siena are level on 0.
BucharestSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance198 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 35 points.35
BucharestSiena
Score6732
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4111
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 22 points.22
BucharestSiena
Score4971
Museums within 10 km7355
Museums within 2 km of centre4051
Share of museums within 2 km %5593
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 45 points.45
BucharestSiena
Score6217
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5384
Nightclubs within 4 km801
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestSiena
Score3619
Protected land share 50 km %43
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 37 points.37
BucharestSiena
Score6831
Tourist attractions within 2 km4513
Park area within 2 km133 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 11 points.11
BucharestSiena
Score6150
Notable places within 2 km13069
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestSiena
Score8568
Price level global40.964.9
Daily budget€99€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 1 points.1
BucharestSiena
Score6364
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months10
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€181-218
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 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

MeasureBucharestSiena
Official languageRomanianItalian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m322 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestSiena
City population1,716,96152,812
People per km²7,597446
Museums within 10 km4129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre6825

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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). 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. 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.