VacationSelector

Mexico City or Siena?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips 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.

Mexico CitySiena
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Siena are level on 0.
Mexico CitySiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance247 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 34 points.34
Mexico CitySiena
Score6632
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1511
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CitySiena
Score7971
Museums within 10 km13855
Museums within 2 km of centre6551
Share of museums within 2 km %4793
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 61 points.61
Mexico CitySiena
Score7817
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4384
Nightclubs within 4 km1981
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 44 points.44
Mexico CitySiena
Score6319
Protected land share 50 km %303
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
Mexico CitySiena
Score5031
Tourist attractions within 2 km2313
Park area within 2 km32 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CitySiena
Score5450
Notable places within 2 km8869
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CitySiena
Score7668
Price level global54.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
Mexico CitySiena
Score9064
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months60
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CitySiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 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

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 centre95 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 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 km10829
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre5025

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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). 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.