Siena day trip from Florence: group, wine or private car

$151 — Siena, San Gimignano and Pisa, 12 hours. The Chianti vineyards and the medieval architecture of all three towns, leaving from Florence. 4.8 on 5,373 reviews. The title names lunch at a winery; the description calls lunch and wine optional, so check what the price covers.

$62 — Siena in the title, 12 hours. The cheapest Siena day trip from Florence on paper and the most reviewed: 4.5 on 9,641 reviews. The title says Pisa, Siena and San Gimignano with a light lunch; the description says Pisa, San Gimignano and Chianti. Read the itinerary before you book it for Siena.

$212 — Siena, Cortona and Montepulciano, 10 to 12 hours. A Siena day trip from Florence that adds Cortona and Montepulciano, with wine tasting; the title adds the Val d’Orcia. 4.8 on 60 reviews. If Pisa is what you would rather add, the Pisa page compares seven trips.

$212 — two winery farms and San Gimignano, 8 hours. A small-group day with organic food, olive oil and wine tasting at two farms in Chianti, lunch, and time in San Gimignano. 4.9 on 110 reviews, the highest rating on this page with more than a hundred reviews.

$307 — truffle hunt, 8 hours. A truffle hunt in Chianti, a truffle lunch, wine tasting, a medieval villa and San Gimignano. 5.0 on 28 reviews.

$345 — San Gimignano and Volterra, 9.5 hours. A small group with a guide through the Tuscan hills, with food and wine. 4.7 on 58 reviews. Each of these is a day trip from Florence to San Gimignano that leaves Siena out.

$781 — private, deluxe car, 8 hours. Siena and San Gimignano, the walled towns and medieval towers, with Tuscan history and culture as the theme. 4.7 on 24 reviews. The shortest Siena day trip from Florence on this site.

$424 — private, 9 hours. For your group only: Pisa, San Gimignano, Siena, Monteriggioni and Chianti. 4.9 on 34 reviews.

What the listings leave out. Neither private day says whether the price is per person or per group. Other private days out of the city are on the private tours page.

Per hour, the group days cost little. The $62 trip is about $5.17 an hour and the $151 day about $12.58. The Cortona and Montepulciano day is about $17.67 on its longer figure, and the private car about $97.62.

Where the reviews are. 15,014 reviews sit on the two big group days; no other trip on this page has more than 110. The private car day has 24, at 4.7.

Our read of the numbers. On this evidence, the best day trip to Siena from Florence is the $151 day: Siena is in the description, and it holds a 4.8 across thousands of reviews. Wine-led days out of the city are compared on the Tuscany and Chianti page.