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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Siena or Tunis?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Tunis 60: Siena leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Tunis 76: Siena leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Tunis 45: Siena leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Tunis 77: Siena leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Siena and Tunis are level on 38.
Getting around. Siena 60, Tunis 48: Siena leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Tunis.

Your match

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

Siena
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaTunis
Official languageItalianArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation322 m4 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaTunis
City population52,812602,560
People per km²4462,834
Museums within 10 km3016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.