VacationSelector

Ghent or Siena?

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

Your match

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

GhentSiena
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentSiena
Score260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance32 km64 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 38 points.38
GhentSiena
Score7032
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4911
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 13 points.13
GhentSiena
Score5871
Museums within 10 km2455
Museums within 2 km of centre2051
Share of museums within 2 km %8393
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 32 points.32
GhentSiena
Score4917
Drinking venues within 4 km570142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7884
Nightclubs within 4 km261
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 15 points.15
GhentSiena
Score3419
Protected land share 50 km %73
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 19 points.19
GhentSiena
Score5031
Tourist attractions within 2 km1913
Park area within 2 km84 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 4 points.4
GhentSiena
Score4650
Notable places within 2 km5569
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 8 points.8
GhentSiena
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 8 points.8
GhentSiena
Score5664
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months10
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
€71-157
CRL · 84 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureGhentSiena
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m322 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentSiena
City population272,65752,812
People per km²1,728446
Museums within 10 km3029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre8325
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.