VacationSelector

Belgrade 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, 1 point apart

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Riga
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

BelgradeRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
BelgradeRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km957
Coast distance292 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Belgrade leads by 4 points.4
BelgradeRiga
Score6359
Restaurants within 2 km of centre776470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2933
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeRiga
Score5361
Museums within 10 km6769
Museums within 2 km of centre4747
Share of museums within 2 km %7068
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 14 points.14
BelgradeRiga
Score6551
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7278
Nightclubs within 4 km13054
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 6 points.6
BelgradeRiga
Score3844
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km147 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Belgrade leads by 16 points.16
BelgradeRiga
Score5135
Tourist attractions within 2 km147
Park area within 2 km147 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Belgrade leads by 6 points.6
BelgradeRiga
Score6862
Notable places within 2 km190137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 9 points.9
BelgradeRiga
Score8576
Price level global41.753.7
Daily budget€99€132
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 13 points.13
BelgradeRiga
Score6552
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 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
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Belgrade
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeRiga
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€138-153
BEG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
€85-94
BEG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
€178-263
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 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

MeasureBelgradeRiga
Official languageSerbianLatvian
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m6 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelgradeRiga
City population1,197,714588,911
People per km²3,327
Museums within 10 km6512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6255
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.