VacationSelector

Riga or Venice?

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 nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

RigaVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 29 points.29
RigaVenice
Score4069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km5720
Coast distance12 km4 km
Water distance12 km4 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 14 points.14
RigaVenice
Score5945
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3310
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 11 points.11
RigaVenice
Score6172
Museums within 10 km6957
Museums within 2 km of centre4745
Share of museums within 2 km %6879
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Riga leads by 16 points.16
RigaVenice
Score5135
Drinking venues within 4 km584342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre456306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7889
Nightclubs within 4 km543
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 27 points.27
RigaVenice
Score4417
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7370
Park area within 2 km68 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 22 points.22
RigaVenice
Score3557
Tourist attractions within 2 km772
Park area within 2 km68 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 21 points.21
RigaVenice
Score6283
Notable places within 2 km137464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 8 points.8
RigaVenice
Score7668
Price level global53.764.9
Daily budget€132€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 14 points.14
RigaVenice
Score5266
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months32
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 0 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 25 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 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

MeasureRigaVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaVenice
City population588,911250,369
People per km²602
Museums within 10 km1252
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5546
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.