VacationSelector

Granada 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, level with your weighting

Granada
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families with your weighting.

Riga
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

GranadaRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
GranadaRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km057
Coast distance48 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 8 points.8
GranadaRiga
Score6759
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3433
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 13 points.13
GranadaRiga
Score4861
Museums within 10 km2869
Museums within 2 km of centre2647
Share of museums within 2 km %9368
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Granada leads by 1 points.1
GranadaRiga
Score5251
Drinking venues within 4 km637584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7878
Nightclubs within 4 km4654
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 19 points.19
GranadaRiga
Score6344
Protected land share 50 km %2710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9673
Park area within 2 km46 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 21 points.21
GranadaRiga
Score5635
Tourist attractions within 2 km607
Park area within 2 km46 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 18 points.18
GranadaRiga
Score4462
Notable places within 2 km50137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 5 points.5
GranadaRiga
Score7176
Price level global60.853.7
Daily budget€122€132
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 22 points.22
GranadaRiga
Score7452
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months73
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 97 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 35 m
€198-239
2 stops
AGP · 97 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 0 m
€151-202
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 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

MeasureGranadaRiga
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
Elevation693 m6 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaRiga
City population233,975588,911
People per km²2,659
Museums within 10 km1912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6255
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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