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Siena or Zurich?

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.

Zurich
✓ Best match
44
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.

SienaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Siena and Zurich are level on 0.
SienaZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km023
Coast distance64 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 35 points.35
SienaZurich
Score3267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre242974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1130
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 15 points.15
SienaZurich
Score7156
Museums within 10 km5576
Museums within 2 km of centre5137
Share of museums within 2 km %9349
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 37 points.37
SienaZurich
Score1754
Drinking venues within 4 km142676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre119553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8482
Nightclubs within 4 km174
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 18 points.18
SienaZurich
Score1937
Protected land share 50 km %316
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 5 points.5
SienaZurich
Score3136
Tourist attractions within 2 km138
Park area within 2 km29 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 9 points.9
SienaZurich
Score5059
Notable places within 2 km69119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 33 points.33
SienaZurich
Score6835
Price level global64.9110.5
Daily budget€155€248
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 11 points.11
SienaZurich
Score6453
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 31.3 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 136 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Siena
No sunshine record
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSienaZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BSL · 81 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSienaZurich
Official languageItalianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation322 m408 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaZurich
City population52,812452,421
People per km²4465,147
Museums within 10 km2963
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre2578

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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.