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The House of the Blackheads at dusk, Riga
RigaThe House of the Blackheads at dusk
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Riga by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Riga or West Palm Beach?

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

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Riga and West Palm Beach are level on 52.
Culture & sights. Riga 66, West Palm Beach 42: Riga leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Riga 52, West Palm Beach 36: Riga leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Riga 55, West Palm Beach 58: West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Riga 60, West Palm Beach 55: Riga leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Riga 50, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Riga 68, West Palm Beach 38: Riga leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Riga 45, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Riga 62, West Palm Beach 23: Riga leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Riga 65, West Palm Beach 47: Riga leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Riga 50, West Palm Beach 44: Riga leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Riga and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Riga
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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RigaWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRigaWest Palm Beach
Official languageLatvian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaWest Palm Beach
City population588,911117,415
People per km²-786
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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). 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.

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.