VacationSelector

Budapest or Siena?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BudapestSiena
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Siena are level on 0.
BudapestSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance10,000 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 45 points.45
BudapestSiena
Score7732
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 7 points.7
BudapestSiena
Score6471
Museums within 10 km14455
Museums within 2 km of centre6451
Share of museums within 2 km %4493
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 55 points.55
BudapestSiena
Score7217
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6684
Nightclubs within 4 km971
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestSiena
Score4019
Protected land share 50 km %83
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 40 points.40
BudapestSiena
Score7131
Tourist attractions within 2 km7513
Park area within 2 km111 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 19 points.19
BudapestSiena
Score6950
Notable places within 2 km20669
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 12 points.12
BudapestSiena
Score8068
Price level global4864.9
Daily budget€104€155
Year-round weather. Budapest and Siena are level on 64.
BudapestSiena
Score6464
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months50
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€166-184
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestSiena
Official languageHungarianItalian
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m322 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestSiena
City population1,685,20952,812
People per km²3,209446
Museums within 10 km8129
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8625

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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.