VacationSelector

Riga or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
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.

RigaVienna
Beaches & swimming. Riga leads by 40 points.40
RigaVienna
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km5722
Coast distance12 km10,000 km
Water distance12 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 18 points.18
RigaVienna
Score5977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4701,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3337
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 20 points.20
RigaVienna
Score6181
Museums within 10 km69192
Museums within 2 km of centre47110
Share of museums within 2 km %6857
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 23 points.23
RigaVienna
Score5174
Drinking venues within 4 km5841,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4561,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7856
Nightclubs within 4 km54108
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 12 points.12
RigaVienna
Score4432
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %73100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 34 points.34
RigaVienna
Score3569
Tourist attractions within 2 km746
Park area within 2 km68 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 13 points.13
RigaVienna
Score6275
Notable places within 2 km137287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 17 points.17
RigaVienna
Score7659
Price level global53.776.9
Daily budget€132€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
RigaVienna
Score5261
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months31
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Riga
No sunshine record
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€111-165
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 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

MeasureRigaVienna
Official languageLatvianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaVienna
City population588,9112,028,289
People per km²4,890
Museums within 10 km12152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre55113
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.