VacationSelector

Goreme or Siena?

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

Your match

Goreme
32
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Siena
✓ Best match
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

GoremeSiena
Beaches & swimming. Goreme and Siena are level on 0.
GoremeSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance205 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Siena leads by 2 points.2
GoremeSiena
Score3032
Restaurants within 2 km of centre100242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2111
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 59 points.59
GoremeSiena
Score1271
Museums within 10 km1055
Museums within 2 km of centre151
Share of museums within 2 km %1093
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Siena leads by 5 points.5
GoremeSiena
Score1217
Drinking venues within 4 km99142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre58119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5984
Nightclubs within 4 km21
Nature & day trips. Goreme leads by 7 points.7
GoremeSiena
Score2619
Protected land share 50 km %113
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares
Good for families. Goreme leads by 21 points.21
GoremeSiena
Score5231
Tourist attractions within 2 km5113
Park area within 2 km29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 50 points.50
GoremeSiena
Score050
Notable places within 2 km269
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Goreme leads by 21 points.21
GoremeSiena
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Goreme leads by 3 points.3
GoremeSiena
Score6764
Monthly daytime high4.6 °C to 29.8 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 59 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months50
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
Goreme
5
7
12
16
22
26
30
30
25
20
12
7
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Goreme
54
42
53
42
59
53
13
7
15
30
32
48
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Goreme
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Goreme
3
4
5
7
9
11
13
12
9
7
5
3
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGoremeSiena
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€84-89
NAV · 29 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 135 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 55 m
€230-246
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 20 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
3 h 15 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
CologneCGN
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
BerlinBER
3 h 20 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 50 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 55 m
€204-223
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
1 h 45 m
€156-246
1 stop
FLR · 55 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

MeasureGoremeSiena
Official languageTurkishItalian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1,100 m322 m
Main airportKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGoremeSiena
City population2,00052,812
People per km²20446
Museums within 10 km529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre3825

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.