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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Siena or Victoria Falls?

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
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Siena leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Victoria Falls 24: Siena leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Victoria Falls 12: Siena leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Victoria Falls 8: Siena leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Victoria Falls 22: Siena leads by 72 points.
Good for families. Siena and Victoria Falls are level on 38.
Getting around. Siena 60, Victoria Falls 45: Siena leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Victoria Falls 18: Siena leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Victoria Falls 32: Siena leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Victoria Falls 10: Siena leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Victoria Falls 34: Siena leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Siena
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
15 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SienaVictoria Falls

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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaVictoria Falls
Official languageItalianEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation322 m961 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaVictoria Falls
City population52,81233,060
People per km²446-
Museums within 10 km302
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50

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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. 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.