At a glance
Quietest month in Latvia: February. Busiest: July, with about 2.9 times as many tourist nights as February. In Riga, July is warmest (average high 23.8 °C) and July wettest (80 mm of rain).
- January: 5.2%, quieter than average
- February: 5.1%, quieter than average
- March: 5.8%, quieter than average
- April: 6.9%, quieter than average
- May: 8.6%, busier than average
- June: 10.4%, busier than average
- July: 14.9%, one of the two busiest months
- August: 14.2%, one of the two busiest months
- September: 8.5%, busier than average
- October: 7.4%, quieter than average
- November: 6.0%, quieter than average
- December: 7.0%, quieter than average
quieter than average busier than average two busiest months · each month's share of Latvia's 2025 tourist nights; an even spread is 8.3% a month
- Weather
- Coldest: February (average low −4.6 °C). Driest: March (34 mm). Month by month
- Prices
- Restaurants and accommodation in Latvia: about 13% below the EU average in 2025. Is Latvia expensive?
- Holidays
- 15 national public holidays in 2026. See the dates · School holidays
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At the RigaLu weather station, which we use for Riga, the warmest month is July (average high 23.8 °C) and the coldest February (average low −4.6 °C), averaged over 1991–2020. The wettest month is July (80 mm of rain). Latvia's quietest month for visitors in 2025 was February.
Riga weather by month
Averages for 1991–2020 at the RigaLu weather station, copied from our Latvia page, next to each month's share of Latvia's tourist nights (Eurostat, 2025). These are long-term averages, not a forecast.
| Month | Average high | Average low | Rain | Rainy days | Daylight on the 15th | Share of 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.1 °C | −4.5 °C | 46 mm | 11.0 days | 7 h 25 min | 5.2% |
| February | 0.3 °C | −4.6 °C | 40 mm | 9.0 days | 9 h 35 min | 5.1% |
| March | 4.8 °C | −1.7 °C | 34 mm | 8.0 days | 11 h 45 min | 5.8% |
| April | 11.9 °C | 2.9 °C | 35 mm | 7.0 days | 14 h 15 min | 6.9% |
| May | 17.8 °C | 8.2 °C | 48 mm | 8.0 days | 16 h 30 min | 8.6% |
| June | 21.3 °C | 12.4 °C | 65 mm | 10.0 days | 17 h 50 min | 10.4% |
| July | 23.8 °C | 14.9 °C | 80 mm | 9.0 days | 17 h 15 min | 14.9% |
| August | 22.7 °C | 14.1 °C | 78 mm | 10.0 days | 15 h 15 min | 14.2% |
| September | 17.3 °C | 9.8 °C | 67 mm | 9.0 days | 12 h 50 min | 8.5% |
| October | 10.5 °C | 4.9 °C | 76 mm | 12.0 days | 10 h 25 min | 7.4% |
| November | 4.8 °C | 1.1 °C | 56 mm | 11.0 days | 8 h 5 min | 6.0% |
| December | 1.4 °C | −2.4 °C | 50 mm | 11.0 days | 6 h 45 min | 7.0% |
Golden hour and sea temperature
Evening golden hour is our calculation for the 15th of each month of 2026: the time the sun takes to go from 6° above to 4° below the horizon (there is no official definition). The sea figure is the 1991–2020 average sea surface temperature at the open-sea point nearest the weather station (NOAA OISST).
| Month | Evening golden hour (15th) | Sea surface |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1 h 43 min | 2.3 °C |
| February | 1 h 22 min | 0.9 °C |
| March | 1 h 14 min | 1.0 °C |
| April | 1 h 17 min | 3.4 °C |
| May | 1 h 30 min | 8.6 °C |
| June | 1 h 45 min | 13.8 °C |
| July | 1 h 37 min | 17.9 °C |
| August | 1 h 21 min | 18.7 °C |
| September | 1 h 14 min | 15.6 °C |
| October | 1 h 17 min | 11.3 °C |
| November | 1 h 34 min | 7.6 °C |
| December | 1 h 56 min | 4.8 °C |
Public holidays by month
National public holidays from the official list on our holiday page, by month, so you can see them next to the weather and how busy each month was. Regional and local holidays are not included.
| Month | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1 Jan: New Year's Day | 1 Jan: New Year's Day |
| March | – | 26 Mar: Good Friday, 28 Mar: Easter Sunday, 29 Mar: Easter Monday |
| April | 3 Apr: Good Friday, 5 Apr: Easter Sunday, 6 Apr: Easter Monday | – |
| May | 1 May: Labour Day, 4 May: Restoration of Independence Day, 10 May: Mother's Day, 24 May: Whit Sunday | 1 May: Labour Day, 4 May: Restoration of Independence Day, 9 May: Mother's Day, 16 May: Whit Sunday |
| June | 23 Jun: Midsummer Eve, 24 Jun: Midsummer Day | 23 Jun: Midsummer Eve, 24 Jun: Midsummer Day |
| November | 18 Nov: Proclamation Day | 18 Nov: Proclamation Day |
| December | 24 Dec: Christmas Eve, 25 Dec: Christmas Day, 26 Dec: Second day of Christmas, 31 Dec: New Year's Eve | 24 Dec: Christmas Eve, 25 Dec: Christmas Day, 26 Dec: Second day of Christmas, 31 Dec: New Year's Eve |
The quietest and busiest months
In 2025, February was Latvia's quietest month (5.1% of the year's tourist nights): average high 0.3 °C, average low −4.6 °C, 40 mm of rain. July was the busiest (14.9%): average high 23.8 °C, average low 14.9 °C, 80 mm of rain. The figures do not show that the weather makes a month busier or quieter, so we do not say it does.
Similar weather, quieter: ideas for July
July was Latvia's busiest month in 2025 (14.9% of its tourist nights). These places had an average high within 2 °C and rainy days within 3 of Riga's in July, in a different country, and July took a smaller share of its 2025 tourist nights than July did of Latvia's:
- Maastricht, Netherlands: average high 23.8 °C, 10.2 rainy days; July was 11.7% of Netherlands's year.
- Santander, Spain: average high 23.8 °C, 7.8 rainy days; July was 13.1% of Spain's year.
- Szczecin, Poland: average high 24.3 °C, 9.5 rainy days; July was 13.1% of Poland's year.
- Antwerp, Belgium: average high 23.6 °C, 10.2 rainy days; July was 13.6% of Belgium's year.
- Hanover, Germany: average high 23.9 °C, 10.4 rainy days; July was 11.7% of Germany's year.
Weather: 1991–2020 averages at each city's weather station (World Meteorological Organization normals in Europe, Japan Meteorological Agency in Japan); a rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain. “Quieter” compares a month with the rest of that place's own year. Try another month or place. All quieter alternatives to Latvia in July.
What these figures are
One weather station stands for Riga; places nearby can differ, especially by height or distance from the sea. For the full picture of Latvia, including regions and holidays, see our Latvia page; for other places, the visual guides and golden hour by place.
Key takeaways
- Warmest month: July (average high 23.8 °C); coldest: February (average low −4.6 °C).
- Wettest month: July (80 mm); driest: March (34 mm).
- In 2025, February was Latvia's quietest month for visitors and July the busiest.
Sources
Weather normals and daylight copied from our country or prefecture page; tourism shares from the same page. See how we research.
- Weather: WMO Member Nations (2023). WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991-2020 (NCEI Accession 0253808), station RigaLu (station ID 00026422), mean daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and number of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation, and total hours of sunshine, normals computed from at least 24 years. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi:10.25921/800j-vn07. Accessed 22 September 2026. Released by NOAA under CC0.
- Daylight: our calculation of the time from sunrise to sunset on the 15th of each month of 2026 at the weather station's location, by the method of the NOAA Solar Calculator (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, “Solar Calculation Details”, based on Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, allowing 0.833° for refraction and the size of the sun). Read it. Checked 22 September 2026. NOAA notes that calculated times can differ from what is observed.
- Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIM, accessed 25 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 22 September 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests and split by guests resident in the country and abroad, January–December 2025.
- Sea temperature: NOAA Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) v2.1, 0.25° grid, monthly long-term mean 1991–2020 (file sst.mon.ltm.1991-2020.nc). Data provided by the NOAA/OAR/PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at https://psl.noaa.gov/. Huang, B., C. Liu, V. Banzon, E. Freeman, G. Graham, B. Hankins, T. Smith and H.-M. Zhang (2021), Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1, Journal of Climate 34, 2923–2939, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0166.1. Dataset page. Accessed 24 September 2026. Public domain (NOAA PSL disclaimer). The choice of grid cell and the rounding are ours; these are not official NOAA figures, and NOAA does not endorse this site.
Modified data: the arrangement, the golden-hour and sea columns and the quietest/busiest comparison are ours, from the cited figures.