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The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Siena or Warsaw?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Siena leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Siena 62, Warsaw 60: Siena leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Siena 78, Warsaw 70: Siena leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Siena 27, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siena 65, Warsaw 47: Siena leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Siena 94, Warsaw 52: Siena leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Siena 38, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Siena 60, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Siena 35, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Siena 42, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siena 36, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siena 55, Warsaw 35: Siena leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siena and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Siena
51match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSienaWarsaw
Official languageItalianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m118 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaWarsaw
City population52,8121,862,402
People per km²4463,601
Museums within 10 km30117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51

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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. 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.

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.