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The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Mexico City 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 Mexico City for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Mexico City 5, Siena 14: Siena leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Mexico City 90, Siena 62: Mexico City leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Mexico City 88, Siena 78: Mexico City leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Mexico City 80, Siena 27: Mexico City leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mexico City 50, Siena 65: Siena leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Mexico City 75, Siena 94: Siena leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Mexico City 58, Siena 38: Mexico City leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Mexico City 50, Siena 60: Siena leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Mexico City 76, Siena 35: Mexico City leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Mexico City 75, Siena 42: Mexico City leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mexico City 72, Siena 36: Mexico City leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mexico City 40, Siena 55: Siena leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mexico City and Siena.

Your match

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

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMexico CitySiena
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m322 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySiena
City population9,209,94452,812
People per km²6,202446
Museums within 10 km10830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65

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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. 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.