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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Siena or Stockholm?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • families
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Stockholm 77: Siena leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Stockholm 68: Siena leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Stockholm 30: Siena leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on families and shopping 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaStockholm
Official languageItalianSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m22 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaStockholm
City population52,812984,748
People per km²4465,260
Museums within 10 km30266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.