VacationSelector

Ottawa or Siena?

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

Your match

Ottawa
✓ Best match
43
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

OttawaSiena
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Siena are level on 0.
OttawaSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance423 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 32 points.32
OttawaSiena
Score6432
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3411
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 39 points.39
OttawaSiena
Score3271
Museums within 10 km1555
Museums within 2 km of centre851
Share of museums within 2 km %5393
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 27 points.27
OttawaSiena
Score4417
Drinking venues within 4 km432142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7084
Nightclubs within 4 km351
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 22 points.22
OttawaSiena
Score4119
Protected land share 50 km %83
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 15 points.15
OttawaSiena
Score4631
Tourist attractions within 2 km1113
Park area within 2 km122 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ottawa and Siena are level on 50.
OttawaSiena
Score5050
Notable places within 2 km7169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 14 points.14
OttawaSiena
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 11 points.11
OttawaSiena
Score5364
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromOttawaSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 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

MeasureOttawaSiena
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m322 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaSiena
City population1,017,44952,812
People per km²366446
Museums within 10 km2029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre6225

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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.