VacationSelector

Siena or Tirana?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SienaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
SienaTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance64 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 23 points.23
SienaTirana
Score3255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre242572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1122
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 46 points.46
SienaTirana
Score7125
Museums within 10 km5512
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %9367
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
SienaTirana
Score1758
Drinking venues within 4 km142945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre119683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8472
Nightclubs within 4 km129
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
SienaTirana
Score1949
Protected land share 50 km %311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km29 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 21 points.21
SienaTirana
Score3152
Tourist attractions within 2 km1321
Park area within 2 km29 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
SienaTirana
Score5053
Notable places within 2 km6983
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
SienaTirana
Score6884
Price level global64.942.6
Daily budget€155€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
SienaTirana
Score6467
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 31.3 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 136 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Siena
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Siena
No sunshine record
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSienaTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
1 h 40 m
no fares
RMI · 129 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureSienaTirana
Official languageItalianAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m110 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaTirana
City population52,812389,323
People per km²4469,314
Museums within 10 km2911
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre2546
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.