VacationSelector

Cannes or Riga?

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

Your match

Cannes
49
match

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

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

CannesRiga
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 33 points.33
CannesRiga
Score7340
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6857
Coast distance1 km12 km
Water distance1 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 9 points.9
CannesRiga
Score5059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1933
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 25 points.25
CannesRiga
Score3661
Museums within 10 km3169
Museums within 2 km of centre547
Share of museums within 2 km %1668
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Riga leads by 23 points.23
CannesRiga
Score2851
Drinking venues within 4 km188584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8778
Nightclubs within 4 km1954
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 11 points.11
CannesRiga
Score3344
Protected land share 50 km %1710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5373
Park area within 2 km13 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 10 points.10
CannesRiga
Score2535
Tourist attractions within 2 km77
Park area within 2 km13 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 6 points.6
CannesRiga
Score5662
Notable places within 2 km95137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 14 points.14
CannesRiga
Score6276
Price level global73.753.7
Daily budget€160€132
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 22 points.22
CannesRiga
Score7452
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 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
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesRiga
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
€165-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 15 m
€234-288
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 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

MeasureCannesRiga
Official languageFrenchLatvian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesRiga
City population74,350588,911
People per km²3,793
Museums within 10 km1612
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3855
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.