According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Latvia is May and September. Plan 7 days.
Best months for Latvia
- Best months
- May and September
- How long to stay
- 7 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Latvia is best for
Explore Riga's Art Nouveau architecture, medieval Old Town, and the forested trails and castles of Gauja Valley.
- Prices
- €€ · about the same as in Slovakia
Weather in Latvia by month
Monthly averages around Riga; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −5 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| February | about −5 °C | some rain (51 mm) |
| March | about −1 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| April | about 5 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| May best | about 11 °C | some rain (51 mm) |
| June | about 15 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| July | about 18 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| August | about 17 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| September best | about 13 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| October | about 7 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| November | about 2 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| December | about −2 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Latvia
- Capital
- Riga
- Language
- Latvian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time
- UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +371
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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