VacationSelector

Riga or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Riga
53
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on good for families 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.

RigaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 3 points.3
RigaRotterdam
Score4037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km5722
Coast distance12 km24 km
Water distance12 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 13 points.13
RigaRotterdam
Score5972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3346
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 1 points.1
RigaRotterdam
Score6160
Museums within 10 km6941
Museums within 2 km of centre4720
Share of museums within 2 km %6849
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Riga leads by 2 points.2
RigaRotterdam
Score5149
Drinking venues within 4 km584542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km5440
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 2 points.2
RigaRotterdam
Score4442
Protected land share 50 km %1010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7379
Park area within 2 km68 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 27 points.27
RigaRotterdam
Score3562
Tourist attractions within 2 km727
Park area within 2 km68 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 11 points.11
RigaRotterdam
Score6251
Notable places within 2 km13774
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 18 points.18
RigaRotterdam
Score7658
Price level global53.779.2
Daily budget€132€181
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
RigaRotterdam
Score5256
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaRotterdam
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
3 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€200-244
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€155-209
1 stop
AMS · 47 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 2026-08 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

MeasureRigaRotterdam
Official languageLatvianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation6 m10 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaRotterdam
City population588,911664,311
People per km²2,080
Museums within 10 km1240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5577
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.