VacationSelector

Riga or The Hague?

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 value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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.

RigaThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 20 points.20
RigaThe Hague
Score4060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km5734
Coast distance12 km3 km
Water distance12 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 11 points.11
RigaThe Hague
Score5970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3343
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
RigaThe Hague
Score6162
Museums within 10 km6946
Museums within 2 km of centre4726
Share of museums within 2 km %6857
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Riga leads by 5 points.5
RigaThe Hague
Score5146
Drinking venues within 4 km584511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7856
Nightclubs within 4 km5419
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
RigaThe Hague
Score4454
Protected land share 50 km %108
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7356
Park area within 2 km68 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 21 points.21
RigaThe Hague
Score3556
Tourist attractions within 2 km710
Park area within 2 km68 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 8 points.8
RigaThe Hague
Score6254
Notable places within 2 km13786
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 18 points.18
RigaThe Hague
Score7658
Price level global53.779.2
Daily budget€132€181
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
RigaThe Hague
Score5254
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaThe Hague
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
3 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€200-244
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€155-209
1 stop
AMS · 40 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

MeasureRigaThe Hague
Official languageLatvianDutch
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 or 911
Elevation6 m1 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaThe Hague
City population588,911548,320
People per km²–5,589
Museums within 10 km1254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5577
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.