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The House of the Blackheads at dusk, Riga
RigaThe House of the Blackheads at dusk
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Riga by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Riga or Turin?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Riga for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Riga’s own page.

Choose Turin for

  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Riga 40, Turin 12: Riga leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Riga 52, Turin 81: Turin leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Riga 66, Turin 78: Turin leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Riga 52, Turin 50: Riga leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Riga 55, Turin 80: Turin leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Riga 60, Turin 84: Turin leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Riga 50, Turin 57: Turin leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Riga and Turin are level on 68.
Shopping & style. Riga 45, Turin 58: Turin leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Riga 62, Turin 58: Riga leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Riga and Turin are level on 65.
Wellness & relaxation. Riga 50, Turin 40: Riga leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Riga and Turin.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Riga
55match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on food and drink and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Riga in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Turin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRigaTurin
Official languageLatvianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m239 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaTurin
City population588,911841,600
People per km²-6,474
Museums within 10 km1272
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.