VacationSelector

Orlando or Riga?

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

Your match

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

OrlandoRiga
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
OrlandoRiga
Score040
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km157
Coast distance68 km12 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 11 points.11
OrlandoRiga
Score4859
Restaurants within 2 km of centre365470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2133
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 53 points.53
OrlandoRiga
Score861
Museums within 10 km1169
Museums within 2 km of centre247
Share of museums within 2 km %1868
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Riga leads by 10 points.10
OrlandoRiga
Score4151
Drinking venues within 4 km344584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6378
Nightclubs within 4 km3954
Nature & day trips. Orlando and Riga are level on 44.
OrlandoRiga
Score4444
Protected land share 50 km %1510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10073
Park area within 2 km52 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 54 points.54
OrlandoRiga
Score8935
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Theme parks within 30 km201
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Park area within 2 km52 hectares68 hectares
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Tourist attractions within 2 km7
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 46 points.46
OrlandoRiga
Score1662
Notable places within 2 km10137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 33 points.33
OrlandoRiga
Score4376
Price level global10053.7
Daily budget€132
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 22 points.22
OrlandoRiga
Score7452
Monthly daytime high22.1 °C to 33.3 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
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. Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOrlandoRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 128 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 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. 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

MeasureOrlandoRiga
Official languageLatvian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m6 m
Main airportOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrlandoRiga
City population334,854588,911
People per km²1,086
Museums within 10 km1112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3055
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). 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.