VacationSelector

Bled or Riga?

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

Your match

Bled
28
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BledRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
BledRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km357
Coast distance76 km12 km
Water distance—12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 40 points.40
BledRiga
Score1959
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1333
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 34 points.34
BledRiga
Score2761
Museums within 10 km1669
Museums within 2 km of centre147
Share of museums within 2 km %668
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Riga leads by 49 points.49
BledRiga
Score251
Drinking venues within 4 km43584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8478
Nightclubs within 4 km154
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 11 points.11
BledRiga
Score3344
Protected land share 50 km %2010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km9 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 18 points.18
BledRiga
Score1735
Tourist attractions within 2 km77
Park area within 2 km9 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 40 points.40
BledRiga
Score2262
Notable places within 2 km14137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 4 points.4
BledRiga
Score7276
Price level global59.653.7
Daily budget€131€132
Year-round weather. Bled leads by 5 points.5
BledRiga
Score5752
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months23
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
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
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
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledRiga
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 40 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 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

MeasureBledRiga
Official languageSloveneLatvian
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
Elevation501 m6 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days–

By the numbers

MeasureBledRiga
City population4,969588,911
People per km²26–
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre1755
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.