VacationSelector

Dublin or Siena?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

DublinSiena
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinSiena
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km64 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 38 points.38
DublinSiena
Score7032
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3711
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 16 points.16
DublinSiena
Score5571
Museums within 10 km4755
Museums within 2 km of centre3751
Share of museums within 2 km %7993
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 47 points.47
DublinSiena
Score6417
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7584
Nightclubs within 4 km401
Nature & day trips. Dublin leads by 7 points.7
DublinSiena
Score2619
Protected land share 50 km %33
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 23 points.23
DublinSiena
Score5431
Tourist attractions within 2 km4113
Park area within 2 km43 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 12 points.12
DublinSiena
Score6250
Notable places within 2 km14169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 11 points.11
DublinSiena
Score5768
Price level global80.264.9
Daily budget€187€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 10 points.10
DublinSiena
Score5464
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 55 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

MeasureDublinSiena
Official languageEnglish, IrishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m322 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinSiena
City population592,71352,812
People per km²5,154446
Museums within 10 km4029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
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). 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. 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.