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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Siena or Valletta?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Valletta 55: Siena leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Valletta 76: Siena leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Valletta 56: Siena leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Valletta 76: Siena leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Valletta 32: Siena leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Valletta.

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.

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaValletta
Official languageItalianEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m56 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaValletta
City population52,8125,197
People per km²4466,496
Museums within 10 km3016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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.