VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Riga?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

Fort LauderdaleRiga
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 44 points.44
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score8440
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km757
Coast distance0 km12 km
Water distance0 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score4559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1833
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 41 points.41
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score2061
Museums within 10 km1469
Museums within 2 km of centre647
Share of museums within 2 km %4368
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Riga leads by 17 points.17
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score3451
Drinking venues within 4 km259584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5678
Nightclubs within 4 km1854
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 37 points.37
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score8144
Protected land share 50 km %2010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5173
Park area within 2 km45 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 16 points.16
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score1935
Tourist attractions within 2 km27
Park area within 2 km45 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 62 points.62
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score062
Notable places within 2 km2137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 33 points.33
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score4376
Price level global10053.7
Daily budget€132
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 24 points.24
Fort LauderdaleRiga
Score7652
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleRiga
Official languageLatvian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleRiga
City population182,760588,911
People per km²1,829
Museums within 10 km612
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2555
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.