VacationSelector

Riga or Toledo?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

RigaToledo
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
RigaToledo
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km571
Coast distance12 km320 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 35 points.35
RigaToledo
Score5924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km337
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 15 points.15
RigaToledo
Score6146
Museums within 10 km6919
Museums within 2 km of centre4719
Share of museums within 2 km %68100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Riga leads by 34 points.34
RigaToledo
Score5117
Drinking venues within 4 km584120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7896
Nightclubs within 4 km545
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 16 points.16
RigaToledo
Score4428
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %73100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 19 points.19
RigaToledo
Score3554
Tourist attractions within 2 km732
Park area within 2 km68 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 16 points.16
RigaToledo
Score6246
Notable places within 2 km13755
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 5 points.5
RigaToledo
Score7671
Price level global53.760.8
Daily budget€132€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 22 points.22
RigaToledo
Score5274
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months311
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
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureRigaToledo
Official languageLatvianSpanish
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 m523 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaToledo
City population588,91187,216
People per km²376
Museums within 10 km1213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5513
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.