VacationSelector

San Francisco or Siena?

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

Your match

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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 FranciscoSiena
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
San FranciscoSiena
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km440
Coast distance2 km64 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 51 points.51
San FranciscoSiena
Score8332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3911
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 27 points.27
San FranciscoSiena
Score4471
Museums within 10 km5755
Museums within 2 km of centre2951
Share of museums within 2 km %5193
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 51 points.51
San FranciscoSiena
Score6817
Drinking venues within 4 km1,434142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6584
Nightclubs within 4 km971
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 41 points.41
San FranciscoSiena
Score6019
Protected land share 50 km %173
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %57100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 26 points.26
San FranciscoSiena
Score5731
Tourist attractions within 2 km4813
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 13 points.13
San FranciscoSiena
Score6350
Notable places within 2 km14769
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 25 points.25
San FranciscoSiena
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 14 points.14
San FranciscoSiena
Score7864
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months70
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 Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
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 Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 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

MeasureSan FranciscoSiena
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
Elevation16 m322 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoSiena
City population873,96552,812
People per km²1,455446
Museums within 10 km5029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre10825
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). 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.