VacationSelector

Dublin or Riga?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Dublin
55
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Riga
53
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

DublinRiga
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 9 points.9
DublinRiga
Score4940
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1157
Coast distance3 km12 km
Water distance3 km12 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinRiga
Score7059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3733
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 6 points.6
DublinRiga
Score5561
Museums within 10 km4769
Museums within 2 km of centre3747
Share of museums within 2 km %7968
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 13 points.13
DublinRiga
Score6451
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km4054
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 18 points.18
DublinRiga
Score2644
Protected land share 50 km %310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6273
Park area within 2 km43 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 19 points.19
DublinRiga
Score5435
Tourist attractions within 2 km417
Park area within 2 km43 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin and Riga are level on 62.
DublinRiga
Score6262
Notable places within 2 km141137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 19 points.19
DublinRiga
Score5776
Price level global80.253.7
Daily budget€187€132
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
DublinRiga
Score5452
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BerlinBER
2 h 15 m
€77-134
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinRiga
Official languageEnglish, IrishLatvian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m6 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days–

By the numbers

MeasureDublinRiga
City population592,713588,911
People per km²5,154–
Museums within 10 km4012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7455
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.