VacationSelector

Siena or Sofia?

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

Your match

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

SienaSofia
Beaches & swimming. Siena and Sofia are level on 0.
SienaSofia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance64 km214 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 32 points.32
SienaSofia
Score3264
Restaurants within 2 km of centre242845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1128
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 14 points.14
SienaSofia
Score7157
Museums within 10 km5551
Museums within 2 km of centre5140
Share of museums within 2 km %9378
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 44 points.44
SienaSofia
Score1761
Drinking venues within 4 km142958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre119608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8463
Nightclubs within 4 km1102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 32 points.32
SienaSofia
Score1951
Protected land share 50 km %312
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 24 points.24
SienaSofia
Score3155
Tourist attractions within 2 km1320
Park area within 2 km29 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 7 points.7
SienaSofia
Score5057
Notable places within 2 km69104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 31 points.31
SienaSofia
Score6899
Price level global64.921.4
Daily budget€155€77
Year-round weather. Siena and Sofia are level on 64.
SienaSofia
Score6464
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 31.3 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 136 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months03
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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Rainfall, mm
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Siena
No sunshine record
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSienaSofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 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

MeasureSienaSofia
Official languageItalianBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m560 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaSofia
City population52,8121,213,134
People per km²4462,466
Museums within 10 km2942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre2551

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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. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.