VacationSelector

Limassol or Riga?

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

Your match

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips 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.

LimassolRiga
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 39 points.39
LimassolRiga
Score7940
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2757
Coast distance1 km12 km
Water distance1 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 16 points.16
LimassolRiga
Score4359
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1933
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 17 points.17
LimassolRiga
Score4461
Museums within 10 km1769
Museums within 2 km of centre1047
Share of museums within 2 km %5968
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Riga leads by 12 points.12
LimassolRiga
Score3951
Drinking venues within 4 km340584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km2054
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 22 points.22
LimassolRiga
Score2244
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4973
Park area within 2 km32 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 19 points.19
LimassolRiga
Score1635
Tourist attractions within 2 km37
Park area within 2 km32 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 48 points.48
LimassolRiga
Score1462
Notable places within 2 km9137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 6 points.6
LimassolRiga
Score7076
Price level global61.453.7
Daily budget€129€132
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 33 points.33
LimassolRiga
Score8552
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months83
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
TallinnTLL
4 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 10 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 30 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BerlinBER
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
1 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. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureLimassolRiga
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekLatvian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolRiga
City population107,970588,911
People per km²2,405
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2855
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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). 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. 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.