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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Siena or Sydney?

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 Sydney for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Sydney 60: Siena leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Sydney 50: Siena leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Sydney 22: Siena leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena and Sydney are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Sydney.

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.

Sydney
Best match
66match

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

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaSydney
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation322 m6 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaSydney
City population52,8125,450,496
People per km²446449
Museums within 10 km3038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.