VacationSelector

Izmir or Siena?

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

Your match

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
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.

IzmirSiena
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
IzmirSiena
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance1 km64 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Izmir leads by 17 points.17
IzmirSiena
Score4932
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1211
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 28 points.28
IzmirSiena
Score4371
Museums within 10 km4755
Museums within 2 km of centre2751
Share of museums within 2 km %5793
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 45 points.45
IzmirSiena
Score6217
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6884
Nightclubs within 4 km701
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
IzmirSiena
Score2919
Protected land share 50 km %43
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km62 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 4 points.4
IzmirSiena
Score3531
Tourist attractions within 2 km613
Park area within 2 km62 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 10 points.10
IzmirSiena
Score4050
Notable places within 2 km3969
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 21 points.21
IzmirSiena
Score8968
Price level global35.264.9
Daily budget€100€155
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 8 points.8
IzmirSiena
Score7264
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
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
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirSiena
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 135 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 50 m
€161-180
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
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

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 centre36 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 km2929
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2025
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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). 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.