VacationSelector

Munich or Siena?

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

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

MunichSiena
Beaches & swimming. Munich and Siena are level on 0.
MunichSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance579 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Munich leads by 41 points.41
MunichSiena
Score7332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 10 points.10
MunichSiena
Score6171
Museums within 10 km7455
Museums within 2 km of centre4851
Share of museums within 2 km %6593
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Munich leads by 50 points.50
MunichSiena
Score6717
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5784
Nightclubs within 4 km1031
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 29 points.29
MunichSiena
Score4819
Protected land share 50 km %173
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km199 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 48 points.48
MunichSiena
Score7931
Tourist attractions within 2 km8013
Park area within 2 km199 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 18 points.18
MunichSiena
Score6850
Notable places within 2 km19669
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 8 points.8
MunichSiena
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 8 points.8
MunichSiena
Score5664
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMunichSiena
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation519 m322 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichSiena
City population1,510,37852,812
People per km²4,861446
Museums within 10 km7429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8925

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.