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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Siena or Valencia?

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
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Valencia 68: Siena leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Valencia 60: Siena leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Valencia 70: Siena leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Valencia 42: Siena leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Valencia.

Your match

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

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaValencia
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m15 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaValencia
City population52,812840,792
People per km²4466,242
Museums within 10 km3045
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
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.