VacationSelector

Riga or Singapore?

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 museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

RigaSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 60 points.60
RigaSingapore
Score40100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km5742
Coast distance12 km2 km
Water distance12 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 28 points.28
RigaSingapore
Score5987
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4704,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3331
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 11 points.11
RigaSingapore
Score6150
Museums within 10 km6957
Museums within 2 km of centre4726
Share of museums within 2 km %6846
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 23 points.23
RigaSingapore
Score5174
Drinking venues within 4 km5841,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4561,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km5477
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 10 points.10
RigaSingapore
Score4434
Protected land share 50 km %101
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7353
Park area within 2 km68 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 33 points.33
RigaSingapore
Score3568
Tourist attractions within 2 km728
Park area within 2 km68 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 4 points.4
RigaSingapore
Score6266
Notable places within 2 km137172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 6 points.6
RigaSingapore
Score7670
Price level global53.762
Daily budget€132—
Year-round weather. Singapore leads by 10 points.10
RigaSingapore
Score5262
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm109 mm to 329 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
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaSingapore
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 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

MeasureRigaSingapore
Official languageLatvianEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation6 m21 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaSingapore
City population588,9115,866,139
People per km²–8,158
Museums within 10 km1240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre55107
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.