VacationSelector

Naples or Riga?

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

Your match

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

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

Riga
53
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

NaplesRiga
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 36 points.36
NaplesRiga
Score7640
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km2957
Coast distance1 km12 km
Water distance1 km12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 13 points.13
NaplesRiga
Score4659
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km733
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 17 points.17
NaplesRiga
Score7861
Museums within 10 km8469
Museums within 2 km of centre6847
Share of museums within 2 km %8168
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Naples leads by 15 points.15
NaplesRiga
Score6651
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6978
Nightclubs within 4 km4054
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 7 points.7
NaplesRiga
Score3744
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5673
Park area within 2 km41 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 6 points.6
NaplesRiga
Score4135
Tourist attractions within 2 km117
Park area within 2 km41 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 16 points.16
NaplesRiga
Score7862
Notable places within 2 km351137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 8 points.8
NaplesRiga
Score6876
Price level global64.953.7
Daily budget€155€132
Year-round weather. Naples leads by 21 points.21
NaplesRiga
Score7352
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months33
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
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesRiga
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€125-207
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
4 h 35 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

MeasureNaplesRiga
Official languageItalianLatvian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m6 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesRiga
City population913,462588,911
People per km²7,676
Museums within 10 km6512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3155
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.