VacationSelector

Munich or Riga?

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

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Riga
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

MunichRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
MunichRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km657
Coast distance579 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 14 points.14
MunichRiga
Score7359
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3533
Museums & heritage. Munich and Riga are level on 61.
MunichRiga
Score6161
Museums within 10 km7469
Museums within 2 km of centre4847
Share of museums within 2 km %6568
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Munich leads by 16 points.16
MunichRiga
Score6751
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5778
Nightclubs within 4 km10354
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 4 points.4
MunichRiga
Score4844
Protected land share 50 km %1710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km199 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 44 points.44
MunichRiga
Score7935
Tourist attractions within 2 km807
Park area within 2 km199 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 6 points.6
MunichRiga
Score6862
Notable places within 2 km196137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 16 points.16
MunichRiga
Score6076
Price level global75.953.7
Daily budget€163€132
Year-round weather. Munich leads by 4 points.4
MunichRiga
Score5652
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€194-265
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
€256
MUC · 29 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 29 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
TashkentTAS
5 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureMunichRiga
Official languageGermanLatvian
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
Elevation519 m6 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichRiga
City population1,510,378588,911
People per km²4,861
Museums within 10 km7412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8955
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.