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Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Savannah 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 Savannah for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Savannah 55, Siena 14: Savannah leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Savannah 58, Siena 62: Siena leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Savannah 68, Siena 78: Siena leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Savannah 52, Siena 27: Savannah leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Savannah 48, Siena 65: Siena leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Savannah 60, Siena 94: Siena leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Savannah 50, Siena 38: Savannah leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Savannah 58, Siena 60: Siena leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Savannah 42, Siena 35: Savannah leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Savannah 35, Siena 42: Siena leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Savannah 40, Siena 36: Savannah leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Savannah 40, Siena 55: Siena leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Savannah and Siena.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Savannah
51match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
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15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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. Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSavannahSiena
Official language-Italian
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
Elevation15 m322 m
Main airportSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSavannahSiena
City population147,78052,812
People per km²524446
Museums within 10 km1930
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.