VacationSelector

Riga or Stuttgart?

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 beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

RigaStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
RigaStuttgart
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km573
Coast distance12 km476 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Riga and Stuttgart are level on 59.
RigaStuttgart
Score5959
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3329
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 5 points.5
RigaStuttgart
Score6156
Museums within 10 km6965
Museums within 2 km of centre4721
Share of museums within 2 km %6832
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Riga leads by 2 points.2
RigaStuttgart
Score5149
Drinking venues within 4 km584524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km5453
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 36 points.36
RigaStuttgart
Score4480
Protected land share 50 km %1051
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %73100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 10 points.10
RigaStuttgart
Score3545
Tourist attractions within 2 km711
Park area within 2 km68 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 18 points.18
RigaStuttgart
Score6244
Notable places within 2 km13750
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 16 points.16
RigaStuttgart
Score7660
Price level global53.775.9
Daily budget€132€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 11 points.11
RigaStuttgart
Score5263
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months33
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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€197-289
1 stop
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€239-263
FRA · 146 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 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

MeasureRigaStuttgart
Official languageLatvianGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaStuttgart
City population588,911633,484
People per km²3,054
Museums within 10 km1242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5559
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.