VacationSelector

Siena or Washington DC?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Washington DC
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SienaWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Washington DC leads by 18 points.18
SienaWashington DC
Score018
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance64 km34 km
Water distance34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 45 points.45
SienaWashington DC
Score3277
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2421,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1136
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 16 points.16
SienaWashington DC
Score7155
Museums within 10 km5583
Museums within 2 km of centre5155
Share of museums within 2 km %9366
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 44 points.44
SienaWashington DC
Score1761
Drinking venues within 4 km1421,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre119593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8458
Nightclubs within 4 km154
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 23 points.23
SienaWashington DC
Score1942
Protected land share 50 km %310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km29 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Washington DC leads by 7 points.7
SienaWashington DC
Score3138
Tourist attractions within 2 km137
Park area within 2 km29 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 26 points.26
SienaWashington DC
Score5076
Notable places within 2 km69305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 25 points.25
SienaWashington DC
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 2 points.2
SienaWashington DC
Score6462
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 31.3 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 136 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Siena
No coastline within reach
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10

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). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSienaWashington DC
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
7 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureSienaWashington DC
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation322 m72 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaWashington DC
City population52,812689,545
People per km²4463,896
Museums within 10 km2999
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre2582
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.