VacationSelector

Cadiz or Riga?

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

Your match

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

CadizRiga
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 30 points.30
CadizRiga
Score7040
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2957
Coast distance0 km12 km
Water distance0 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 15 points.15
CadizRiga
Score4459
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1833
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 25 points.25
CadizRiga
Score3661
Museums within 10 km2369
Museums within 2 km of centre1647
Share of museums within 2 km %7068
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Riga leads by 21 points.21
CadizRiga
Score3051
Drinking venues within 4 km241584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7378
Nightclubs within 4 km654
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 18 points.18
CadizRiga
Score2644
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4573
Park area within 2 km24 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 19 points.19
CadizRiga
Score5435
Tourist attractions within 2 km807
Park area within 2 km24 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 31 points.31
CadizRiga
Score3162
Notable places within 2 km23137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 5 points.5
CadizRiga
Score7176
Price level global60.853.7
Daily budget€122€132
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 31 points.31
CadizRiga
Score8352
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Riga
No sunshine record

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

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 10 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
5 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCadizRiga
Official languageSpanishLatvian
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
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days–

By the numbers

MeasureCadizRiga
City population109,950588,911
People per km²9,087–
Museums within 10 km1112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2855
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.