VacationSelector

Riga or Split?

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, 2 points apart

Riga
53
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

RigaSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 33 points.33
RigaSplit
Score4073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km5787
Coast distance12 km0 km
Water distance12 km0 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 21 points.21
RigaSplit
Score5938
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3315
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 9 points.9
RigaSplit
Score6152
Museums within 10 km6918
Museums within 2 km of centre4716
Share of museums within 2 km %6889
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Riga leads by 10 points.10
RigaSplit
Score5141
Drinking venues within 4 km584379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7869
Nightclubs within 4 km5423
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 6 points.6
RigaSplit
Score4438
Protected land share 50 km %109
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7362
Park area within 2 km68 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 9 points.9
RigaSplit
Score3526
Tourist attractions within 2 km79
Park area within 2 km68 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 20 points.20
RigaSplit
Score6242
Notable places within 2 km13743
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 4 points.4
RigaSplit
Score7680
Price level global53.748.5
Daily budget€132€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 17 points.17
RigaSplit
Score5269
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€232-306
2 stops
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€171-200
SPU · 12 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

MeasureRigaSplit
Official languageLatvianCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaSplit
City population588,911160,577
Museums within 10 km1211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5531
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.