VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Riga?

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

Your match

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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.

Las VegasRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
Las VegasRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km057
Coast distance372 km12 km
Water distance—12 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasRiga
Score6259
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2433
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 42 points.42
Las VegasRiga
Score1961
Museums within 10 km2469
Museums within 2 km of centre447
Share of museums within 2 km %1768
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 7 points.7
Las VegasRiga
Score5851
Drinking venues within 4 km793584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6178
Nightclubs within 4 km9054
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 19 points.19
Las VegasRiga
Score6344
Protected land share 50 km %5010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km7 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 1 points.1
Las VegasRiga
Score3435
Tourist attractions within 2 km197
Park area within 2 km7 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 11 points.11
Las VegasRiga
Score5162
Notable places within 2 km75137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 33 points.33
Las VegasRiga
Score4376
Price level global10053.7
Daily budget—€132
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 20 points.20
Las VegasRiga
Score7252
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months123
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
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. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 40 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.

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasRiga
Official language–Latvian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m6 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days–

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasRiga
City population641,903588,911
People per km²1,843–
Museums within 10 km2112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4955
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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