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Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Izmir 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 Izmir for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Siena for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Izmir 62, Siena 14: Izmir leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Izmir 72, Siena 62: Izmir leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Izmir 55, Siena 78: Siena leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Izmir 60, Siena 27: Izmir leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Izmir 66, Siena 65: Izmir leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Izmir 86, Siena 94: Siena leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Izmir 55, Siena 38: Izmir leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Izmir 63, Siena 60: Izmir leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Izmir 55, Siena 35: Izmir leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Izmir 66, Siena 42: Izmir leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Izmir 48, Siena 36: Izmir leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Izmir 57, Siena 55: Izmir leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Izmir and Siena.

Your match

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

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
51match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

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

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. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureIzmirSiena
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
Elevation2 m322 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirSiena
City population4,493,24252,812
People per km²4,760446
Museums within 10 km2930
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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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. 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). 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.