VacationSelector

Melbourne or Siena?

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

Your match

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

MelbourneSiena
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneSiena
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km190
Coast distance4 km64 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 43 points.43
MelbourneSiena
Score7532
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,888242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2911
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 22 points.22
MelbourneSiena
Score4971
Museums within 10 km4255
Museums within 2 km of centre2451
Share of museums within 2 km %5793
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 57 points.57
MelbourneSiena
Score7417
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6284
Nightclubs within 4 km1241
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 24 points.24
MelbourneSiena
Score4319
Protected land share 50 km %63
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %81100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 29 points.29
MelbourneSiena
Score6031
Tourist attractions within 2 km2613
Park area within 2 km166 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 7 points.7
MelbourneSiena
Score5750
Notable places within 2 km10369
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 18 points.18
MelbourneSiena
Score5068
Price level global90.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneSiena
Score7664
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneSiena
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 135 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMelbourneSiena
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m322 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSiena
City population5,350,70552,812
People per km²535446
Museums within 10 km4229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8625
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). 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.