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Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Punta Cana 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 Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Siena for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Punta Cana 94, Siena 14: Punta Cana leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Punta Cana 30, Siena 62: Siena leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Punta Cana 8, Siena 78: Siena leads by 70 points.
Nightlife. Punta Cana 40, Siena 27: Punta Cana leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta Cana 52, Siena 65: Siena leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Punta Cana 35, Siena 94: Siena leads by 59 points.
Good for families. Punta Cana 68, Siena 38: Punta Cana leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Punta Cana 15, Siena 60: Siena leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Punta Cana 30, Siena 35: Siena leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Punta Cana 44, Siena 42: Punta Cana leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta Cana 15, Siena 36: Siena leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta Cana 52, Siena 55: Siena leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta Cana and Siena.

Your match

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

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Siena
Best match
51match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
13 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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Punta CanaSiena

Where the figures come from

Punta Cana 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.

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. Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta CanaSiena
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m322 m
Main airportPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta CanaSiena
City population138,91952,812
People per km²292446
Museums within 10 km030
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.