VacationSelector

Brasov or Riga?

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

Your match

Brasov
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BrasovRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
BrasovRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km057
Coast distance280 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 24 points.24
BrasovRiga
Score3559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre232470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1433
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 23 points.23
BrasovRiga
Score3861
Museums within 10 km1569
Museums within 2 km of centre1347
Share of museums within 2 km %8768
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Riga leads by 21 points.21
BrasovRiga
Score3051
Drinking venues within 4 km223584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7678
Nightclubs within 4 km1454
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 11 points.11
BrasovRiga
Score3344
Protected land share 50 km %1310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km23 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Brasov and Riga are level on 35.
BrasovRiga
Score3535
Tourist attractions within 2 km127
Park area within 2 km23 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 31 points.31
BrasovRiga
Score3162
Notable places within 2 km23137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brasov leads by 9 points.9
BrasovRiga
Score8576
Price level global40.953.7
Daily budget€99€132
Year-round weather. Brasov leads by 10 points.10
BrasovRiga
Score6252
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 27 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 97 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months53
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
Brasov
2
6
11
16
20
25
26
27
22
16
10
4
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Brasov
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Brasov
27
23
35
54
77
97
95
71
56
46
33
31
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Brasov
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brasov: 2016-2026 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Brasov (3 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrasovRiga
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 126 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 126 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 126 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
no fares
SBZ · 119 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 126 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 126 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 45 m
no fares
OTP · 126 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 126 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 126 km
4 h 5 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBrasovRiga
Official languageRomanianLatvian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation600 m6 m
Main airportBrașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrasovRiga
City population237,589588,911
People per km²890
Museums within 10 km812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre3655
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). 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. 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.

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.