VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Siena?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

Buenos AiresSiena
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresSiena
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance2 km64 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.35
Buenos AiresSiena
Score6732
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2611
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 5 points.5
Buenos AiresSiena
Score6671
Museums within 10 km14855
Museums within 2 km of centre7151
Share of museums within 2 km %4893
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 51 points.51
Buenos AiresSiena
Score6817
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6084
Nightclubs within 4 km1601
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.24
Buenos AiresSiena
Score4319
Protected land share 50 km %93
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 38 points.38
Buenos AiresSiena
Score6931
Tourist attractions within 2 km4913
Park area within 2 km69 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresSiena
Score6050
Notable places within 2 km12569
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresSiena
Score8268
Price level global45.864.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresSiena
Score7564
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
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

MeasureBuenos AiresSiena
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m322 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresSiena
City population3,121,70752,812
People per km²15,355446
Museums within 10 km7529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5525
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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). 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. 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.