Best time to visit Latvia
Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Latvia agrees on May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep.
| Place | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | In words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RigaMay to September (the midsummer festival is the country’s night; the Christmas market claims to be the first ever) | May to September (the midsummer festival is the country’s night; the Christmas market claims to be the first ever) | ||||||||||||
| JūrmalaJune to August (the sea is warmest at the end of summer; the town half-sleeps from autumn to spring) | June to August (the sea is warmest at the end of summer; the town half-sleeps from autumn to spring) | ||||||||||||
| SiguldaMay to October (the autumn colour in the valley is the reason the town exists; the bobsleigh runs in winter) | May to October (the autumn colour in the valley is the reason the town exists; the bobsleigh runs in winter) | ||||||||||||
| KuldīgaMay to September (the vimba jump the falls in spring; the town festival is in high summer) | May to September (the vimba jump the falls in spring; the town festival is in high summer) | ||||||||||||
| CēsisMay to October (the castle gardens and the autumn colour; the medieval festival in high summer) | May to October (the castle gardens and the autumn colour; the medieval festival in high summer) | ||||||||||||
| LiepājaMay to September (the beach; the wind is a fact of every month) | May to September (the beach; the wind is a fact of every month) |
best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.
The guides in Latvia
RigaLatviaThe biggest Art Nouveau city in the world with a Hanseatic old town inside it, a market in five zeppelin hangars, and a beach twenty minutes away by train
JūrmalaLatviaThirty kilometres of white sand under pines, wooden villas from the tsars’ time, and Riga half an hour away by train
SiguldaLatviaThe Gauja valley: three castles, a cable car across the river, a bobsleigh track you can ride, caves with medieval graffiti and the country’s autumn colour
KuldīgaLatviaA small town of wooden houses on the widest waterfall in Europe, where the fish jump the falls in spring and the brick bridge is the longest of its kind
CēsisLatviaThe prettiest small town in Latvia: a Livonian castle you explore by lantern, a medieval centre, a beer brewed since 1590 and the Gauja forest around it
LiepājaLatviaThe city where the wind is born: a long white beach, a Soviet naval base you can sleep in the prison of, Art Nouveau streets and the country’s rock music