VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Riga?

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

Your match

Dubrovnik
44
match

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

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikRiga
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 37 points.37
DubrovnikRiga
Score7740
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4357
Coast distance0 km12 km
Water distance0 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 21 points.21
DubrovnikRiga
Score3859
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1833
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikRiga
Score4961
Museums within 10 km1869
Museums within 2 km of centre1747
Share of museums within 2 km %9468
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Riga leads by 31 points.31
DubrovnikRiga
Score2051
Drinking venues within 4 km128584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8678
Nightclubs within 4 km1354
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 39 points.39
DubrovnikRiga
Score544
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5173
Park area within 2 km6 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 14 points.14
DubrovnikRiga
Score2135
Tourist attractions within 2 km127
Park area within 2 km6 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 18 points.18
DubrovnikRiga
Score4462
Notable places within 2 km48137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 4 points.4
DubrovnikRiga
Score8076
Price level global48.553.7
Daily budget€138€132
Year-round weather. Dubrovnik leads by 13 points.13
DubrovnikRiga
Score6552
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
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
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 16 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€102-184
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DublinDUB
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 5 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 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

MeasureDubrovnikRiga
Official languageCroatianLatvian
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
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikRiga
City population41,562588,911
Museums within 10 km712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3255
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.