VacationSelector

Inverness or Riga?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

InvernessRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 12 points.12
InvernessRiga
Score2840
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km157
Coast distance1 km12 km
Water distance1 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 38 points.38
InvernessRiga
Score2159
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1133
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 41 points.41
InvernessRiga
Score2061
Museums within 10 km669
Museums within 2 km of centre547
Share of museums within 2 km %8368
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Riga leads by 36 points.36
InvernessRiga
Score1551
Drinking venues within 4 km113584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8778
Nightclubs within 4 km454
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 35 points.35
InvernessRiga
Score944
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8873
Park area within 2 km3 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 35 points.35
InvernessRiga
Score035
Tourist attractions within 2 km37
Park area within 2 km3 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 38 points.38
InvernessRiga
Score2462
Notable places within 2 km16137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 22 points.22
InvernessRiga
Score5476
Price level global84.953.7
Daily budget—€132
Year-round weather. Inverness and Riga are level on 52.
InvernessRiga
Score5252
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
5 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInvernessRiga
Official languageEnglishLatvian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days–

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessRiga
City population47,380588,911
People per km²2,289–
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1555
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.