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The House of the Blackheads at dusk, Riga
RigaThe House of the Blackheads at dusk
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Riga by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Riga or Yokohama?

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

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Riga 52, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Riga 66, Yokohama 55: Riga leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Riga 52, Yokohama 44: Riga leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Riga 55, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Riga 60, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Riga 50, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Riga 68, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Riga 45, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Riga 62, Yokohama 55: Riga leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Riga 65, Yokohama 56: Riga leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Riga 50, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Riga and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Riga
55match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families and day trips 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
No recordsunshine a day
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureRigaYokohama
Official languageLatvianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation6 m24 m
Main airportRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRigaYokohama
City population588,9113,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

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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.