Siena or Verona?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.
Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.
What matters to you?
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The verdict
Choose Siena if heritage is the point of the trip: it has roughly three times as many museums as Verona, and evenings stay quiet, with far fewer places to drink or dance.
Choose Verona if you are travelling with children, or want the day to carry on after dinner: 4 theme parks within reach, more attractions and park space near the centre, and a wider choice of restaurants.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Siena and Verona are level on 0.
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 0 | 2 |
| Coast distance | 64 km | 104 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Verona leads by 11 points.11
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 32 | 43 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 242 | 477 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 11 | 13 |
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 15 points.15
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 71 | 56 |
| Museums within 10 km | 55 | 20 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 51 | 19 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 93 | 95 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 5 | 5 |
Nightlife. Verona leads by 23 points.23
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 17 | 40 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 142 | 416 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 119 | 269 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 84 | 65 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 1 | 9 |
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 17 points.17
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 19 | 36 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 3 | 9 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 29 hectares | 59 hectares |
Good for families. Verona leads by 38 points.38
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 31 | 69 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 13 | 62 |
| Park area within 2 km | 29 hectares | 59 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 0 | 4 |
Sights concentration. Verona leads by 3 points.3
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 50 | 53 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 69 | 82 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Siena and Verona are level on 68.
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 68 | 68 |
| Price level global | 64.9 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €155 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 1 points.1
| Siena | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 64 | 65 |
| Monthly daytime high | 8.9 °C to 31.3 °C | 6.8 °C to 30.3 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 49 mm to 136 mm | 38 mm to 85 mm |
| Dry months | 0 | 1 |
Where they differ
Siena is the stronger heritage city, with about three times as many museums as Verona; both put 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach.
Verona is the better bet with children: 4 theme parks within reach where Siena has none, many times as many attractions near the centre and about twice as much park space. Evenings differ too, Verona having about three times as many places to drink and far more nightclubs. Outside town, 9% of the land around it is protected against 3% around Siena.
Where they are alike
Neither city is a place to swim. Verona has 2 beaches within reach and Siena none, but neither sees sea at 21°C or more in any month, so water is not part of either trip.
Both also sit in a similar climate band, with summer highs of 30-31°C and January highs of 7-9°C, and both keep their notable places close together, walkable from the centre, with Verona holding somewhat more of them.
Which traveller are you?
A traveller who plans days around collections, churches and old streets should take Siena: roughly three times as many museums as Verona, and both cities put 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach.
Families are better served in Verona: 4 theme parks within reach, many more attractions near the centre and about twice as much park space, plus 9% of the surrounding land protected for days out.
If evenings matter and eating out is part of the plan, Verona again: about twice as many restaurants near the centre, a somewhat wider range of kitchens, and far more bars and clubs.
What the numbers don't tell you
The value comparison between these two carries no information: that figure is a national price level, identical for both by construction, and the €155 daily budget beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either city. Treat the cost of the trip as an open question.
The sunshine figure is missing for Siena, since no nearby station records it, so that side of the weather comparison is unmeasured rather than poor; the monthly picture there rests on temperature and rainfall alone. And warm months are not dry ones: Siena's September, among its best for temperature, is also among its wettest, near 103mm.
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.
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).
Siena peaks in May-June and again in September, when highs sit at 23-28°C, though September is one of its wetter months, near 103mm. July-August are the driest, at 49-53mm, and the hottest, better for early starts than long walks.
Verona follows the same pattern, a touch cooler at 24-28°C in the same months and drier in September at 85mm. It is also the easier winter stop: midwinter brings 38-43mm against Siena's 71-79mm, though highs hold at 7-10°C.
Getting there
| Flying from | Siena | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 2 h 5 m €180-199 1 stop FLR · 55 km | 1 h 55 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 40 m €143-159 FLR · 55 km | 1 h 35 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| TiranaTIA | 1 h 35 m no fares PSA · 86 km | 1 h 40 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| CataniaCTA | 1 h 35 m €135-156 FLR · 55 km | 1 h 45 m €40-90 VRN · 10 km |
| ViennaVIE | 1 h 25 m €185-255 1 stop FLR · 55 km | 1 h 10 m €65-121 VCE · 106 km |
| ZurichZRH | 1 h 10 m no fares FLR · 55 km | 1 h 5 m no fares VCE · 106 km |
| BucharestOTP, BBU | 2 h 10 m €104-116 PSA · 86 km | 1 h 55 m €50-66 TSF · 96 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 1 h 55 m €232-255 2 stops FLR · 55 km | 1 h 45 m €207-227 2 stops VRN · 10 km |
| PalermoPMO | 1 h 25 m no fares FLR · 55 km | 1 h 40 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| Sharm el SheikhSSH | 3 h 45 m no fares RMI · 129 km | 4 h 0 m no fares VRN · 10 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 2026-09 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
| Measure | Siena | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Italian | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CFL230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 322 m | 59 m |
| Main airport | Florence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations | Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Siena | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 52,812 | 255,588 |
| People per km² | 446 | 1,285 |
| Museums within 10 km | 29 | 18 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 5 | 5 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 25 | 35 |
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