VacationSelector

Riga or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Riga
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

RigaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 48 points.48
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score4088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km5710
Coast distance12 km0 km
Water distance12 km0 km
Places to eat. Riga leads by 22 points.22
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score5937
Restaurants within 2 km of centre470262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3314
Museums & heritage. Riga leads by 44 points.44
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score6117
Museums within 10 km695
Museums within 2 km of centre473
Share of museums within 2 km %6860
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Riga leads by 31 points.31
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score5120
Drinking venues within 4 km584132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre45690
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km5410
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 25 points.25
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score4469
Protected land share 50 km %1015
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7345
Park area within 2 km68 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Riga leads by 14 points.14
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score3521
Tourist attractions within 2 km73
Park area within 2 km68 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 50 points.50
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score6212
Notable places within 2 km1378
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 33 points.33
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score7643
Price level global53.7100
Daily budget€132
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 23 points.23
RigaWest Palm Beach
Score5275
Monthly daytime high-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 87 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromRigaWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
3 h 50 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 20 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 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

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 centre101 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaWest Palm Beach
City population588,911117,415
People per km²786
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5518
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.