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White sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach, Pensacola
PensacolaWhite sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Pensacola by Jason Meredith, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Pensacola 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 Pensacola for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • 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. Pensacola 84, Siena 14: Pensacola leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Pensacola 45, Siena 62: Siena leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Pensacola 45, Siena 78: Siena leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Pensacola 42, Siena 27: Pensacola leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pensacola 62, Siena 65: Siena leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Pensacola 45, Siena 94: Siena leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Pensacola 62, Siena 38: Pensacola leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Pensacola 18, Siena 60: Siena leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Pensacola 28, Siena 35: Siena leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Pensacola 44, Siena 42: Pensacola leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pensacola and Siena are level on 36.
Wellness & relaxation. Pensacola 30, Siena 55: Siena leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pensacola and Siena.

Your match

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

Pensacola
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Siena
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Pensacola in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 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. Pensacola: 1991-2020 normals, Pensacola / Pleasant Grove (12.3 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePensacolaSiena
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m322 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)6 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePensacolaSiena
City population54,31252,812
People per km²515446
Museums within 10 km530
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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.