VacationSelector

San Diego or Siena?

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

Your match

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

San DiegoSiena
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
San DiegoSiena
Score630
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance1 km64 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 31 points.31
San DiegoSiena
Score6332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre823242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2711
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 27 points.27
San DiegoSiena
Score4471
Museums within 10 km5955
Museums within 2 km of centre3051
Share of museums within 2 km %5193
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 33 points.33
San DiegoSiena
Score5017
Drinking venues within 4 km615142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6684
Nightclubs within 4 km311
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 36 points.36
San DiegoSiena
Score5519
Protected land share 50 km %63
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km308 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 44 points.44
San DiegoSiena
Score7531
Tourist attractions within 2 km4013
Park area within 2 km308 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 10 points.10
San DiegoSiena
Score4050
Notable places within 2 km4069
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 25 points.25
San DiegoSiena
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 24 points.24
San DiegoSiena
Score8864
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months90
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
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 2026-09 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

MeasureSan DiegoSiena
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation129 m322 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoSiena
City population1,386,93252,812
People per km²1,438446
Museums within 10 km2629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre4425
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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). 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.