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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Snowbird by VeggieGarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Siena or Snowbird?

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 Siena for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Snowbird for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Snowbird’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. Siena 14, Snowbird 5: Siena leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Snowbird 20: Siena leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Snowbird 5: Siena leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Snowbird 9: Siena leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Snowbird 92: Snowbird leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Snowbird 47: Siena leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Snowbird 42: Snowbird leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Snowbird 40: Siena leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Snowbird 8: Siena leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Snowbird 15: Siena leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Snowbird 8: Siena leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Snowbird 40: Siena leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Snowbird.

Your match

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

Siena
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Snowbird
28match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Siena in July

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

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
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.

Snowbird has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre). Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSienaSnowbird
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation322 m2,479 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaSnowbird
City population52,812-
People per km²446-
Museums within 10 km300
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50

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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. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.