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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montevideo 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 Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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. Montevideo 55, Siena 14: Montevideo leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Siena 62: Siena leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Siena 78: Siena leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Siena 27: Montevideo leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Siena 65: Siena leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Siena 94: Siena leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Siena 38: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Siena 60: Siena leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Siena 35: Montevideo leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Montevideo and Siena are level on 42.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Siena 36: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Siena 55: Siena leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Siena.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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.

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoSiena
Official language-Italian
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m322 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoSiena
City population1,302,95452,812
People per km²1,785446
Museums within 10 km3630
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.