VacationSelector

Riga or Turin?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Turin
52
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

RigaTurin
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
RigaTurin
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km571
Coast distance12 km105 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Turin leads by 5 points.5
RigaTurin
Score5964
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4701,198
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3321
Museums & heritage. Turin leads by 7 points.7
RigaTurin
Score6168
Museums within 10 km6965
Museums within 2 km of centre4739
Share of museums within 2 km %6860
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Turin leads by 15 points.15
RigaTurin
Score5166
Drinking venues within 4 km5841,375
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456768
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7856
Nightclubs within 4 km5457
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 11 points.11
RigaTurin
Score4433
Protected land share 50 km %106
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %73100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares72 hectares
Good for families. Turin leads by 18 points.18
RigaTurin
Score3553
Tourist attractions within 2 km736
Park area within 2 km68 hectares72 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 7 points.7
RigaTurin
Score6255
Notable places within 2 km13792
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 8 points.8
RigaTurin
Score7668
Price level global53.764.9
Daily budget€132€155
Year-round weather. Turin leads by 12 points.12
RigaTurin
Score5264
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C7.1 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm44 mm to 127 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
Turin
7
9
14
18
21
26
29
28
24
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Turin
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Turin
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Turin
9
10
12
14
15
16
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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaTurin
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€41-129
TRN · 14 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€171-459
1 stop
TRN · 14 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
TashkentTAS
4 h 55 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 35 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
4 h 10 m
€170-264
1 stop
MXP · 103 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

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 centre101 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaTurin
City population588,911841,600
People per km²6,474
Museums within 10 km1272
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5578
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.