VacationSelector

Riga or San Diego?

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

Your match

Riga
53
match

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

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

RigaSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 23 points.23
RigaSan Diego
Score4063
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km5742
Coast distance12 km1 km
Water distance12 km1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 4 points.4
RigaSan Diego
Score5963
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3327
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 17 points.17
RigaSan Diego
Score6144
Museums within 10 km6959
Museums within 2 km of centre4730
Share of museums within 2 km %6851
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Riga leads by 1 points.1
RigaSan Diego
Score5150
Drinking venues within 4 km584615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7866
Nightclubs within 4 km5431
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 11 points.11
RigaSan Diego
Score4455
Protected land share 50 km %106
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7352
Park area within 2 km68 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 40 points.40
RigaSan Diego
Score3575
Tourist attractions within 2 km740
Park area within 2 km68 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 22 points.22
RigaSan Diego
Score6240
Notable places within 2 km13740
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 33 points.33
RigaSan Diego
Score7643
Price level global53.7100
Daily budget€132—
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 36 points.36
RigaSan Diego
Score5288
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months39
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaSan Diego
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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.

Before you go

MeasureRigaSan Diego
Official languageLatvian–
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m129 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaSan Diego
City population588,9111,386,932
People per km²–1,438
Museums within 10 km1226
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5544
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.