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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

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

Siena or Thessaloniki?

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

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Thessaloniki leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Thessaloniki 73: Siena leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Thessaloniki 74: Siena leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Siena and Thessaloniki are level on 60.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Thessaloniki 33: Siena leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Siena
51match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaThessaloniki
Official languageItalianGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m6 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaThessaloniki
City population52,812309,617
People per km²44616,042
Museums within 10 km3032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.