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Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Goreme 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 Goreme for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Siena for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Goreme 3, Siena 14: Siena leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Goreme 20, Siena 62: Siena leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Goreme 45, Siena 78: Siena leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Goreme 5, Siena 27: Siena leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Goreme 74, Siena 65: Goreme leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Goreme 70, Siena 94: Siena leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Goreme 40, Siena 38: Goreme leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Goreme 40, Siena 60: Siena leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Goreme 22, Siena 35: Siena leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Goreme 58, Siena 42: Goreme leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Goreme 10, Siena 36: Siena leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Goreme 42, Siena 55: Siena leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Goreme and Siena.

Your match

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

Goreme
36match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Siena
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

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

Goreme's station stands 160 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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 centre22 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGoremeSiena
City population2,00052,812
People per km²20446
Museums within 10 km530
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15

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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. 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.

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.