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A jetty on the lagoon, Faro
FaroA jetty on the lagoon
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Faro by Efrem Efre, Pexels License; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Faro or Siena?

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 Faro for

  • beaches
  • families
  • prices

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

Choose Siena for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Siena’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. Faro 74, Siena 14: Faro leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Faro 48, Siena 62: Siena leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Faro 35, Siena 78: Siena leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Faro 32, Siena 27: Faro leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Faro 62, Siena 65: Siena leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Faro 64, Siena 94: Siena leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Faro 60, Siena 38: Faro leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Faro and Siena are level on 60.
Shopping & style. Faro and Siena are level on 35.
Affordability. Faro 60, Siena 42: Faro leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Faro 30, Siena 36: Siena leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Faro 33, Siena 55: Siena leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Faro and Siena.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Faro
49match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Siena
51match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Faro in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Siena's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Arezzo.

Siena has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFaroSiena
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m322 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroSiena
City population64,56052,812
People per km²319446
Museums within 10 km230
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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.