VacationSelector

Riga or Seville?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seville
54
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.

RigaSeville
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
RigaSeville
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km572
Coast distance12 km65 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Seville leads by 7 points.7
RigaSeville
Score5966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4701,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3322
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 5 points.5
RigaSeville
Score6156
Museums within 10 km6950
Museums within 2 km of centre4740
Share of museums within 2 km %6880
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Seville leads by 11 points.11
RigaSeville
Score5162
Drinking venues within 4 km5841,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7862
Nightclubs within 4 km5457
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 7 points.7
RigaSeville
Score4437
Protected land share 50 km %108
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %73100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 30 points.30
RigaSeville
Score3565
Tourist attractions within 2 km747
Park area within 2 km68 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 7 points.7
RigaSeville
Score6255
Notable places within 2 km13792
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 5 points.5
RigaSeville
Score7671
Price level global53.760.8
Daily budget€132€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 23 points.23
RigaSeville
Score5275
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months35
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
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaSeville
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
3 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
5 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 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

MeasureRigaSeville
Official languageLatvianSpanish
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
Elevation6 m18 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaSeville
City population588,911689,423
People per km²4,896
Museums within 10 km1224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5552
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. 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.