VacationSelector

Berlin or Riga?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

BerlinRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
BerlinRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1757
Coast distance142 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 11 points.11
BerlinRiga
Score7059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3333
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 18 points.18
BerlinRiga
Score7961
Museums within 10 km20069
Museums within 2 km of centre8147
Share of museums within 2 km %4168
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 25 points.25
BerlinRiga
Score7651
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3478
Nightclubs within 4 km13554
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 5 points.5
BerlinRiga
Score4944
Protected land share 50 km %2010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km141 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 41 points.41
BerlinRiga
Score7635
Tourist attractions within 2 km547
Park area within 2 km141 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 22 points.22
BerlinRiga
Score8462
Notable places within 2 km486137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 16 points.16
BerlinRiga
Score6076
Price level global75.953.7
Daily budget€163€132
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 8 points.8
BerlinRiga
Score6052
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months33
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 0 m
€156-196
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 40 m
€83-100
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
4 h 40 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

MeasureBerlinRiga
Official languageGermanLatvian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m6 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinRiga
City population3,782,202588,911
People per km²4,244
Museums within 10 km15812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8655
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.