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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Siena or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 59 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Tokyo 85: Siena leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 57 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 64 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and nightlife 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaTokyo
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation322 m6 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaTokyo
City population52,81214,264,798
People per km²4466,501
Museums within 10 km30192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.