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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License.

Siena or Strasbourg?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Strasbourg for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Strasbourg’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, Strasbourg 10: Siena leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Strasbourg 70: Siena leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Strasbourg 40: Strasbourg leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Strasbourg 62: Siena leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Strasbourg 80: Siena leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Strasbourg 79: Strasbourg leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Strasbourg 52: Strasbourg leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Strasbourg 44: Strasbourg leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Strasbourg 56: Strasbourg leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena and Strasbourg are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Strasbourg.

Your match

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

Siena
51match

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

Strasbourg
Best match
57match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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
15 hdaylight a day

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaStrasbourg
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m132 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaStrasbourg
City population52,812293,771
People per km²4463,752
Museums within 10 km3021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.