VacationSelector

Madrid or Siena?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MadridSiena
Beaches & swimming. Madrid and Siena are level on 0.
MadridSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance305 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 51 points.51
MadridSiena
Score8332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2811
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 4 points.4
MadridSiena
Score7571
Museums within 10 km9755
Museums within 2 km of centre5951
Share of museums within 2 km %6193
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 64 points.64
MadridSiena
Score8117
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6284
Nightclubs within 4 km3411
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 44 points.44
MadridSiena
Score6319
Protected land share 50 km %193
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 46 points.46
MadridSiena
Score7731
Tourist attractions within 2 km6113
Park area within 2 km187 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 25 points.25
MadridSiena
Score7550
Notable places within 2 km28869
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 3 points.3
MadridSiena
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 8 points.8
MadridSiena
Score7264
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€193-236
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureMadridSiena
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation663 m322 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridSiena
City population3,506,73052,812
People per km²5,801446
Museums within 10 km8829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre10625

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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.