VacationSelector

Siena or Vancouver?

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 and value for money with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

SienaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
SienaVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0109
Coast distance64 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 42 points.42
SienaVancouver
Score3274
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2421,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1135
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 37 points.37
SienaVancouver
Score7134
Museums within 10 km5527
Museums within 2 km of centre5115
Share of museums within 2 km %9356
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 40 points.40
SienaVancouver
Score1757
Drinking venues within 4 km142848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre119602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8471
Nightclubs within 4 km144
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 58 points.58
SienaVancouver
Score1977
Protected land share 50 km %319
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km29 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 22 points.22
SienaVancouver
Score3153
Tourist attractions within 2 km1315
Park area within 2 km29 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 2 points.2
SienaVancouver
Score5048
Notable places within 2 km6963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 14 points.14
SienaVancouver
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 11 points.11
SienaVancouver
Score6453
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 31.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 136 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Siena
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Siena
No sunshine record
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSienaVancouver
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureSienaVancouver
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation322 m2 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaVancouver
City population52,812662,248
People per km²4465,759
Museums within 10 km2926
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre2585
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.