VacationSelector

Helsinki or Siena?

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

Your match

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

HelsinkiSiena
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 60 points.60
HelsinkiSiena
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1570
Coast distance0 km64 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 39 points.39
HelsinkiSiena
Score7132
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,005242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3811
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 22 points.22
HelsinkiSiena
Score4971
Museums within 10 km5755
Museums within 2 km of centre2351
Share of museums within 2 km %4093
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 39 points.39
HelsinkiSiena
Score5617
Drinking venues within 4 km807142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7584
Nightclubs within 4 km401
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 23 points.23
HelsinkiSiena
Score4219
Protected land share 50 km %33
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km185 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 27 points.27
HelsinkiSiena
Score5831
Tourist attractions within 2 km2013
Park area within 2 km185 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 23 points.23
HelsinkiSiena
Score7350
Notable places within 2 km25769
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 12 points.12
HelsinkiSiena
Score5668
Price level global81.664.9
Daily budget€184€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 16 points.16
HelsinkiSiena
Score4864
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months30
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
MunichMUC
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 20 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 45 m
€212-264
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
€172-198
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 2026-09 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

MeasureHelsinkiSiena
Official languageFinnish, SwedishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m322 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiSiena
City population694,39252,812
People per km²3,239446
Museums within 10 km7429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7825
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. 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.