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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Catania or Siem Reap?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Catania for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Catania’s own page.

Choose Siem Reap for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Catania 72, Siem Reap 5: Catania leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Siem Reap 45: Catania leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Siem Reap 42: Catania leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Siem Reap 40: Catania leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Siem Reap 55: Catania leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Siem Reap 35: Catania leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Siem Reap 30: Catania leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Siem Reap 38: Catania leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Siem Reap 32: Catania leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Siem Reap 60: Siem Reap leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Siem Reap.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCataniaSiem Reap
Official languageItalianKhmer
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation7 m18 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaSiem Reap
City population311,584147,866
People per km²1,704-
Museums within 10 km256
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.