VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Siena?

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

Your match

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming 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.

RotterdamSiena
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
RotterdamSiena
Score370
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance24 km64 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 40 points.40
RotterdamSiena
Score7232
Restaurants within 2 km of centre862242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4611
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 11 points.11
RotterdamSiena
Score6071
Museums within 10 km4155
Museums within 2 km of centre2051
Share of museums within 2 km %4993
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 32 points.32
RotterdamSiena
Score4917
Drinking venues within 4 km542142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre378119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7084
Nightclubs within 4 km401
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 23 points.23
RotterdamSiena
Score4219
Protected land share 50 km %103
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %79100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 31 points.31
RotterdamSiena
Score6231
Tourist attractions within 2 km2713
Park area within 2 km61 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km80
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 1 points.1
RotterdamSiena
Score5150
Notable places within 2 km7469
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 10 points.10
RotterdamSiena
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 8 points.8
RotterdamSiena
Score5664
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 55 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 81 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
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

MeasureRotterdamSiena
Official languageDutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation10 m322 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamSiena
City population664,31152,812
People per km²2,080446
Museums within 10 km4029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre7725
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.