VacationSelector

Antwerp or Riga?

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

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Riga
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

AntwerpRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
AntwerpRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km157
Coast distance21 km12 km
Water distance—12 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 16 points.16
AntwerpRiga
Score7559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4233
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpRiga
Score6961
Museums within 10 km4169
Museums within 2 km of centre2747
Share of museums within 2 km %6668
Unesco sites within 50 km91
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpRiga
Score5951
Drinking venues within 4 km866584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7678
Nightclubs within 4 km7354
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 10 points.10
AntwerpRiga
Score3444
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8073
Park area within 2 km53 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpRiga
Score4635
Tourist attractions within 2 km147
Park area within 2 km53 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpRiga
Score5462
Notable places within 2 km88137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 16 points.16
AntwerpRiga
Score6076
Price level global76.253.7
Daily budget€180€132
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpRiga
Score5852
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 36 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAntwerpRiga
Official languageFrench, German, DutchLatvian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days–

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpRiga
City population529,247588,911
People per km²2,542–
Museums within 10 km3812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Distinct cuisines in the centre8055
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.