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Riga or Toronto?

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, 1 point apart

Riga
53
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

RigaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 3 points.3
RigaToronto
Score4043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km5758
Coast distance12 km533 km
Water distance12 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 23 points.23
RigaToronto
Score5982
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4702,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3339
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 18 points.18
RigaToronto
Score6143
Museums within 10 km6935
Museums within 2 km of centre4725
Share of museums within 2 km %6871
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 18 points.18
RigaToronto
Score5169
Drinking venues within 4 km5841,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km54103
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 18 points.18
RigaToronto
Score4426
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %73100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 22 points.22
RigaToronto
Score3557
Tourist attractions within 2 km723
Park area within 2 km68 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 1 points.1
RigaToronto
Score6261
Notable places within 2 km137128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 22 points.22
RigaToronto
Score7654
Price level global53.784
Daily budget€132
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 3 points.3
RigaToronto
Score5255
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureRigaToronto
Official languageLatvianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m76 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaToronto
City population588,9112,794,356
People per km²4,434
Museums within 10 km1232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre55102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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). 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.