VacationSelector

Mostar or Riga?

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

Your match

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

MostarRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
MostarRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km757
Coast distance44 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 40 points.40
MostarRiga
Score1959
Restaurants within 2 km of centre117470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km933
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 25 points.25
MostarRiga
Score3661
Museums within 10 km1369
Museums within 2 km of centre1247
Share of museums within 2 km %9268
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Riga leads by 29 points.29
MostarRiga
Score2251
Drinking venues within 4 km154584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre147456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9578
Nightclubs within 4 km854
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 35 points.35
MostarRiga
Score944
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9973
Park area within 2 km7 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 20 points.20
MostarRiga
Score1535
Tourist attractions within 2 km107
Park area within 2 km7 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 26 points.26
MostarRiga
Score3662
Notable places within 2 km31137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 12 points.12
MostarRiga
Score8876
Price level global37.453.7
Daily budget€132
Year-round weather. Mostar leads by 9 points.9
MostarRiga
Score6152
Monthly daytime high9.3 °C to 33.4 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMostarRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 55 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
€179-250
DBV · 95 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 68 km
4 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMostarRiga
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianLatvian
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)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
Elevation60 m6 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMostarRiga
City population105,448588,911
People per km²90
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre1855
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). 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. 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. 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.