VacationSelector

Innsbruck or Riga?

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

Your match

Innsbruck
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

InnsbruckRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
InnsbruckRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1057
Coast distance217 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 13 points.13
InnsbruckRiga
Score4659
Restaurants within 2 km of centre270470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2433
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 13 points.13
InnsbruckRiga
Score4861
Museums within 10 km3469
Museums within 2 km of centre2147
Share of museums within 2 km %6268
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Riga leads by 17 points.17
InnsbruckRiga
Score3451
Drinking venues within 4 km271584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8078
Nightclubs within 4 km1654
Nature & day trips. Innsbruck leads by 16 points.16
InnsbruckRiga
Score6044
Protected land share 50 km %3110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km38 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Innsbruck leads by 10 points.10
InnsbruckRiga
Score4535
Tourist attractions within 2 km187
Park area within 2 km38 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 17 points.17
InnsbruckRiga
Score4562
Notable places within 2 km53137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 17 points.17
InnsbruckRiga
Score5976
Price level global76.953.7
Daily budget€160€132
Year-round weather. Innsbruck leads by 7 points.7
InnsbruckRiga
Score5952
Monthly daytime high3.9 °C to 25.6 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 144 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months13
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
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Innsbruck
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
3
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInnsbruckRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€194-265
1 stop
MUC · 124 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 10 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
€256
MUC · 124 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 124 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
TallinnTLL
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
KutaisiKUT
3 h 45 m
€221-277
2 stops
FMM · 118 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
TashkentTAS
5 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
4 h 55 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

MeasureInnsbruckRiga
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageLatvian
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
Elevation574 m6 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckRiga
City population132,499588,911
People per km²1,263
Museums within 10 km2712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4755
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.