VacationSelector

Inverness or Siena?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Siena
✓ Best match
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

InvernessSiena
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InvernessSiena
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance1 km64 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Siena leads by 11 points.11
InvernessSiena
Score2132
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1111
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 51 points.51
InvernessSiena
Score2071
Museums within 10 km655
Museums within 2 km of centre551
Share of museums within 2 km %8393
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Siena leads by 2 points.2
InvernessSiena
Score1517
Drinking venues within 4 km113142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8784
Nightclubs within 4 km41
Nature & day trips. Siena leads by 10 points.10
InvernessSiena
Score919
Protected land share 50 km %123
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %88100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Siena leads by 31 points.31
InvernessSiena
Score031
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km3 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 26 points.26
InvernessSiena
Score2450
Notable places within 2 km1669
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 14 points.14
InvernessSiena
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 12 points.12
InvernessSiena
Score5264
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
PSA · 86 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

MeasureInvernessSiena
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m322 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessSiena
City population47,38052,812
People per km²2,289446
Museums within 10 km329
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre1525
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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.