Latvia · typical climate
Where to find sun from Riga
Riga is Baltic: frozen or grey in winter, mild and light in summer. Jurmala is the city's beach, and it has the same temperature.
What you can reach
About 2 hours by car: Siauliai (about 1 h 45), Panevezys (about 2 h), Cēsis (about 1 h 15).
Further, still inside 5 hours: Vilnius (about 3 h 45), Tallinn (about 4 h), Kaunas (about 3 h 15), Klaipėda (about 3 h 15), Lida (about 5 h).
Inside a 4-hour door-to-door flight, and too far for that drive: Rostock, Koszalin, Helsingborg, Stockholm. The four-hour circle is other northern capitals. Treat it as a city break. It is not a sun trip.
Car times are the straight-line estimate SunFinder starts from (~70 km/h), before a routed drive. A mountain road or a ferry takes longer. The flight circle is the same 4-hour limit the tool uses.
When to stay
Vilnius is further inland and, in winter, colder. Tallinn is the same sea. A five-hour drive never leaves this climate. Summer on the coast can be the whole plan. Winter sun starts when the flight does.
Crossing the water
The ferry to Stockholm is an overnight crossing of the Baltic. You arrive in another northern capital, in the same season.
Typical daytime high
Rounded long-term average for Riga. Not this week’s forecast.
This weekend, by car
A live SunFinder check from Riga, within about 5 hours. This is the forecast. The climate above does not change with it.
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