VacationSelector

Krakow or Siena?

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

Your match

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on 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.

KrakowSiena
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Siena are level on 0.
KrakowSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance456 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
KrakowSiena
Score6832
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3011
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowSiena
Score7571
Museums within 10 km8455
Museums within 2 km of centre6951
Share of museums within 2 km %8293
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 40 points.40
KrakowSiena
Score5717
Drinking venues within 4 km836142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8384
Nightclubs within 4 km541
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 27 points.27
KrakowSiena
Score4619
Protected land share 50 km %143
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km79 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 43 points.43
KrakowSiena
Score7431
Tourist attractions within 2 km7713
Park area within 2 km79 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
KrakowSiena
Score6850
Notable places within 2 km19869
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
KrakowSiena
Score7968
Price level global4964.9
Daily budget€133€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 6 points.6
KrakowSiena
Score5864
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months40
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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKrakowSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 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

MeasureKrakowSiena
Official languagePolishItalian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m322 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSiena
City population804,23752,812
People per km²2,459446
Museums within 10 km11429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre6825

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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. 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.