VacationSelector

London or Siena?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on value for money and 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.

LondonSiena
Beaches & swimming. London and Siena are level on 0.
LondonSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km470
Coast distance43 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 56 points.56
LondonSiena
Score8832
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4011
Museums & heritage. London leads by 1 points.1
LondonSiena
Score7271
Museums within 10 km14855
Museums within 2 km of centre4951
Share of museums within 2 km %3393
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. London leads by 78 points.78
LondonSiena
Score9517
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4684
Nightclubs within 4 km3121
Nature & day trips. London leads by 21 points.21
LondonSiena
Score4019
Protected land share 50 km %163
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 44 points.44
LondonSiena
Score7531
Tourist attractions within 2 km8513
Park area within 2 km84 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 39 points.39
LondonSiena
Score8950
Notable places within 2 km64969
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 14 points.14
LondonSiena
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 1 points.1
LondonSiena
Score6364
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months10
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 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

MeasureLondonSiena
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m322 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonSiena
City population8,799,72852,812
People per km²5,598446
Museums within 10 km21529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre11625

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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). 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.