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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Manchester or Siena?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Manchester for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’s own page.

Choose Siena for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Siena’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Manchester 9, Siena 14: Siena leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, Siena 62: Siena leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, Siena 78: Siena leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, Siena 27: Manchester leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, Siena 65: Siena leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Manchester 77, Siena 94: Siena leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Manchester 58, Siena 38: Manchester leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Manchester 68, Siena 60: Manchester leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, Siena 35: Manchester leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Manchester and Siena are level on 42.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, Siena 36: Manchester leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, Siena 55: Siena leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and Siena.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Siena
51match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Siena's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Arezzo.

Siena has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManchesterSiena
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
Elevation38 m322 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterSiena
City population547,62752,812
People per km²4,737446
Museums within 10 km2830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.