VacationSelector

Kyoto or Siena?

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

Your match

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

KyotoSiena
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoSiena
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance47 km64 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 52 points.52
KyotoSiena
Score8432
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2211
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 1 points.1
KyotoSiena
Score7271
Museums within 10 km13255
Museums within 2 km of centre5151
Share of museums within 2 km %3993
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 63 points.63
KyotoSiena
Score8017
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7384
Nightclubs within 4 km261
Nature & day trips. Kyoto leads by 3 points.3
KyotoSiena
Score2219
Protected land share 50 km %23
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 35 points.35
KyotoSiena
Score6631
Tourist attractions within 2 km6213
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoSiena
Score5250
Notable places within 2 km7969
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoSiena
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 2 points.2
KyotoSiena
Score6264
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months00
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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 55 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
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

MeasureKyotoSiena
Official languageJapaneseItalian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m322 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoSiena
City population1,463,72352,812
People per km²1,768446
Museums within 10 km7629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8925
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. 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.