VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Siena?

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

Your match

Dubrovnik
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikSiena
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikSiena
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance0 km64 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikSiena
Score3832
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1811
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 22 points.22
DubrovnikSiena
Score4971
Museums within 10 km1855
Museums within 2 km of centre1751
Share of museums within 2 km %9493
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Dubrovnik leads by 3 points.3
DubrovnikSiena
Score2017
Drinking venues within 4 km128142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8684
Nightclubs within 4 km131
Nature & day trips. Siena leads by 14 points.14
DubrovnikSiena
Score519
Protected land share 50 km %43
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km6 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Siena leads by 10 points.10
DubrovnikSiena
Score2131
Tourist attractions within 2 km1213
Park area within 2 km6 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikSiena
Score4450
Notable places within 2 km4869
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikSiena
Score8068
Price level global48.564.9
Daily budget€138€155
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikSiena
Score6564
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureDubrovnikSiena
Official languageCroatianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation10 m322 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikSiena
City population41,56252,812
People per km²446
Museums within 10 km729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre3225
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.