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Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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. Palm Beach 82, Siena 14: Palm Beach leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Siena 62: Siena leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Siena 78: Siena leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Siena 27: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Siena 65: Siena leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Siena 94: Siena leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Siena 38: Palm Beach leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Siena 60: Siena leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Siena 35: Palm Beach leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Siena 42: Siena leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Siena 36: Palm Beach leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach and Siena are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach 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

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
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. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachSiena
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)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
Elevation2 m322 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachSiena
City population9,24552,812
People per km²322446
Museums within 10 km430
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.