VacationSelector

Lisbon or Siena?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

LisbonSiena
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonSiena
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km240
Coast distance2 km64 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 48 points.48
LisbonSiena
Score8032
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3111
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 1 points.1
LisbonSiena
Score7071
Museums within 10 km12455
Museums within 2 km of centre5451
Share of museums within 2 km %4493
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 48 points.48
LisbonSiena
Score6517
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7884
Nightclubs within 4 km651
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 37 points.37
LisbonSiena
Score5619
Protected land share 50 km %113
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km77 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 38 points.38
LisbonSiena
Score6931
Tourist attractions within 2 km8213
Park area within 2 km77 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
LisbonSiena
Score6650
Notable places within 2 km16969
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonSiena
Score7468
Price level global55.964.9
Daily budget€109€155
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonSiena
Score7864
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
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
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 35 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 40 m
€227-271
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 35 m
€95-118
LIS · 7 km
3 h 10 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

MeasureLisbonSiena
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m322 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonSiena
City population545,79652,812
People per km²5,453446
Museums within 10 km7829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre10625
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. 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.