VacationSelector

Riga or Siena?

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

Your match

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage 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.

RigaSiena
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
RigaSiena
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km570
Coast distance12 km64 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 27 points.27
RigaSiena
Score5932
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3311
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 10 points.10
RigaSiena
Score6171
Museums within 10 km6955
Museums within 2 km of centre4751
Share of museums within 2 km %6893
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Riga leads by 34 points.34
RigaSiena
Score5117
Drinking venues within 4 km584142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7884
Nightclubs within 4 km541
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 25 points.25
RigaSiena
Score4419
Protected land share 50 km %103
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %73100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 4 points.4
RigaSiena
Score3531
Tourist attractions within 2 km713
Park area within 2 km68 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 12 points.12
RigaSiena
Score6250
Notable places within 2 km13769
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 8 points.8
RigaSiena
Score7668
Price level global53.764.9
Daily budget€132€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 12 points.12
RigaSiena
Score5264
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaSiena
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MarrakechRAK
5 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 86 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

MeasureRigaSiena
Official languageLatvianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m322 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaSiena
City population588,91152,812
People per km²446
Museums within 10 km1229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5525
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.