VacationSelector

Siena or York?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

SienaYork
Beaches & swimming. Siena and York are level on 0.
SienaYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance64 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. York leads by 22 points.22
SienaYork
Score3254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre242361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1131
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 25 points.25
SienaYork
Score7146
Museums within 10 km5518
Museums within 2 km of centre5116
Share of museums within 2 km %9389
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. York leads by 26 points.26
SienaYork
Score1743
Drinking venues within 4 km142450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre119353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8478
Nightclubs within 4 km114
Nature & day trips. York leads by 14 points.14
SienaYork
Score1933
Protected land share 50 km %317
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km29 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 12 points.12
SienaYork
Score3143
Tourist attractions within 2 km1313
Park area within 2 km29 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 11 points.11
SienaYork
Score5039
Notable places within 2 km6937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 14 points.14
SienaYork
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 8 points.8
SienaYork
Score6456
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 31.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 136 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Siena
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSienaYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€104-116
PSA · 86 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
GironaGRO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureSienaYork
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation322 m25 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaYork
City population52,812208,400
People per km²446766
Museums within 10 km2924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre2554

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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. 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.