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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
St. Petersburg, Florida

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

Siena or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Siena leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Siena leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Siena leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Siena leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Siena leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Siena leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

Wins on beaches 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
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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. Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation322 m134 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population52,812258,308
People per km²446725
Museums within 10 km3013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.