VacationSelector

Lyon or Siena?

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

Your match

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

LyonSiena
Beaches & swimming. Lyon and Siena are level on 0.
LyonSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km260
Coast distance253 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 47 points.47
LyonSiena
Score7932
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,691242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4011
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 16 points.16
LyonSiena
Score5571
Museums within 10 km5355
Museums within 2 km of centre2551
Share of museums within 2 km %4793
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 41 points.41
LyonSiena
Score5817
Drinking venues within 4 km866142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7184
Nightclubs within 4 km471
Nature & day trips. Lyon leads by 14 points.14
LyonSiena
Score3319
Protected land share 50 km %63
Landscape blanket share 50 km %60
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km120 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 28 points.28
LyonSiena
Score5931
Tourist attractions within 2 km2513
Park area within 2 km120 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 4 points.4
LyonSiena
Score5450
Notable places within 2 km8669
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 6 points.6
LyonSiena
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Lyon and Siena are level on 64.
LyonSiena
Score6464
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 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 2026-10 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

MeasureLyonSiena
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation160 m322 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonSiena
City population519,12752,812
People per km²10,838446
Museums within 10 km4229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre14825

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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). 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.