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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Siena or Steamboat Springs?

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
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Siena leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Steamboat Springs 30: Siena leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Steamboat Springs 14: Siena leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Steamboat Springs 20: Siena leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Steamboat Springs 12: Siena leads by 82 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Steamboat Springs 46: Siena leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Steamboat Springs 22: Siena leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Steamboat Springs 17: Siena leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Steamboat Springs 28: Siena leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Siena
Best match
51match

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

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on families 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.

Siena in July

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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 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.

Steamboat Springs 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). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaSteamboat Springs
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 m2,052 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaSteamboat Springs
City population52,81213,224
People per km²446503
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. 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.