VacationSelector

Seattle or Siena?

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

Your match

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
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.

SeattleSiena
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SeattleSiena
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1000
Coast distance1 km64 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 43 points.43
SeattleSiena
Score7532
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,460242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 35 points.35
SeattleSiena
Score3671
Museums within 10 km2855
Museums within 2 km of centre1751
Share of museums within 2 km %6193
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 40 points.40
SeattleSiena
Score5717
Drinking venues within 4 km873142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8084
Nightclubs within 4 km341
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 21 points.21
SeattleSiena
Score4019
Protected land share 50 km %93
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 15 points.15
SeattleSiena
Score4631
Tourist attractions within 2 km1713
Park area within 2 km63 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 2 points.2
SeattleSiena
Score5250
Notable places within 2 km7669
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 25 points.25
SeattleSiena
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 3 points.3
SeattleSiena
Score6164
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months30
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
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. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
DublinDUB
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSeattleSiena
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
Elevation40 m322 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleSiena
City population737,01552,812
People per km²1,996446
Museums within 10 km2729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7825
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.