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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
The House of the Blackheads at dusk, Riga
RigaThe House of the Blackheads at dusk

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Riga by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Agra or Riga?

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 Agra for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Riga for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Riga’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. Agra 3, Riga 40: Riga leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Riga 52: Riga leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Riga 66: Agra leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Riga 52: Riga leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Riga 55: Riga leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Riga 60: Agra leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Riga 50: Riga leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Riga 68: Riga leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Riga 45: Riga leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Riga 62: Agra leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Riga 65: Riga leads by 55 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Riga 50: Riga leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Riga.

Your match

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

Agra
36match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Riga
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Riga in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agra 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. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraRiga
Official languageHindi, EnglishLatvian
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation171 m6 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureAgraRiga
City population1,585,705588,911
People per km²8,417-
Museums within 10 km012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.