VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Siena?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

PhiladelphiaSiena
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Siena are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance13 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 45 points.45
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score7732
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 11 points.11
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score6071
Museums within 10 km8955
Museums within 2 km of centre4851
Share of museums within 2 km %5493
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 42 points.42
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score5917
Drinking venues within 4 km930142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6284
Nightclubs within 4 km411
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 30 points.30
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score4919
Protected land share 50 km %143
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score5331
Tourist attractions within 2 km1613
Park area within 2 km75 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 4 points.4
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score5450
Notable places within 2 km8869
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 25 points.25
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 4 points.4
PhiladelphiaSiena
Score6064
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
8 h 15 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 86 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaSiena
Official languageItalian
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
Elevation12 m322 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaSiena
City population1,603,79752,812
People per km²4,339446
Museums within 10 km5429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7525

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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.