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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Siena or Vienna?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Vienna for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Vienna 62: Siena leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Vienna 74: Siena leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Vienna.

Your match

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

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
15 hdaylight a day

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaVienna
Official languageItalianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaVienna
City population52,8122,028,289
People per km²4464,890
Museums within 10 km30152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53

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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.