When is Latvia quietest? Tourist nights by month

Latvia, month by month

When is Latvia busiest, and when is it quietest?

July was the busiest month in 2025, with 14.9% of the year's tourist nights. February was the quietest, with 5.1%. That makes July 2.9 times as busy as February.¹

Seven months each carried less than an average month's share of 8.3%: January, February, March, April, October, November and December.

Who stays in Latvia: residents or guests from abroad?

In 2025, guests living abroad spent 61.8% of Latvia's tourist nights. Residents of Latvia spent the rest.¹

The share from abroad was highest in September, at 65.3% of that month's nights, and lowest in March, at 59.1%.¹

Guests from abroad spent more than half of the nights in every month of the year.

Eurostat counts guests by the country they live in, not by nationality.²

How seasonal is Latvia compared with the rest of Europe?

July and August together carried 29.1% of Latvia's nights. Ranked by that share, Latvia is the 17th most seasonal of the 35 European countries we measured, where 1 is the country most concentrated into its two busiest months.¹

For comparison, the most seasonal country on this measure was Croatia at 54.5%, and the least seasonal was Malta at 21.8%. See all 35 countries ranked.

How full are Latvia's hotels each month?

Hotel rooms were fullest in July, when 60.9% were in use, and emptiest in January, at 31.2%.³

This is Eurostat's net occupancy rate of bedrooms: bedrooms in use divided by bedrooms available. It covers hotels and similar places only, not campsites or holiday lets, so it can peak in a different month from the nights figures above.²

How long do guests stay in Latvia?

Guests stayed an average of 1.8 nights each time they checked in at tourist accommodation in Latvia in 2025: 4,977,169 nights across 2,820,854 arrivals.⁴ Across the 33 countries on this site with complete figures, the average ran from 1.5 nights in Iceland to 4.7 in Cyprus.⁴

This is our division of Eurostat's two counts. Eurostat counts an arrival each time a guest checks in at a place to stay, so a traveller who moves between places is counted more than once, and a whole trip is longer than the figure suggests.²

Did accommodation in Latvia get more expensive in 2025?

On Eurostat's harmonised index of consumer prices, prices of accommodation services in Latvia were 5.9% higher on average in 2025 than in 2024. Across the EU the rise was 4.1%.⁵

This measures how prices changed, not what a stay costs, so check the current price when you book. Accommodation services cover hotels, motels and inns; holiday centres, campsites and youth hostels; and other places to stay.

What are Latvia's public holidays in 2026 and 2027?

In Latvia, public holidays fall on 15 days in both 2026 and 2027.⁶ In 2026, 4 of those days are a Saturday or Sunday.⁶ The closing day of the General Latvian Song and Dance Festival is also a holiday in festival years; it is not listed because we have no official date.

We took these from the law or the government's own list, not from a holiday website, and worked out the dates that move each year, such as Easter, from the rules in the law. The European Commission's list for 2026 differs: it leaves out Mother's Day and Whit Sunday, both Sundays, and adds 2 January and 22 June, which the law does not list. We follow the national source.⁷ Regional and local holidays are not included.

What is the weather like in Riga each month?

Averaged over 1991–2020, the RigaLu weather station, which we use for Riga, is warmest in July, with an average high of 23.8 °C, and coldest in February, with an average low of −4.6 °C. Its wettest month is July (80 mm of rain on average) and its driest March (34 mm).⁸

In February, Latvia's quietest month, the station's average high is 0.3 °C and its average low −4.6 °C, with 40 mm of rain. In July, the busiest, the average high is 23.8 °C.⁸

In February the station averages 9.0 days with at least 1 mm of rain and 64 hours of sunshine.⁸ On 15 February the sun is up for about 9 h 35 min there, against 17 h 15 min on 15 July.⁹

Thirty-year averages from one weather station, RigaLu, which we use for Riga. They describe a typical year at that station, not a forecast, and weather varies across Latvia. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain. Daylight is not measured: it is our calculation of the time from sunrise to sunset.

June or September? May or October?

September was quieter than June, at 8.5% against 10.4%.

October was quieter than May, at 7.4% against 8.6%.

These compare months at similar distances from the summer peak. For typical weather in Riga, see the weather section.

What these figures cannot tell you

These figures are good at one thing: showing when a country's registered tourist accommodation fills up. Four things they cannot do.

They miss some small places. The counts cover hotels, holiday and short-stay accommodation and campsites, but countries may exclude establishments with fewer than ten bed places, so small guesthouses can be missing.²

Nights are not queues. A national monthly total cannot see how busy one old town, beach or museum is on a given day.

Tourist nights say nothing about weather or prices. The weather section uses 30-year averages from one station, not a forecast. The price section shows how accommodation prices changed, not what a stay costs.

They are one year. These are 2025 figures. Patterns shift from year to year, and Eurostat revises its data as countries update their returns.

The full year

Total for 2025: 4,977,169 nights, 61.8% of them by guests living abroad. The two busiest months are marked. "From abroad" is the share of that month's nights spent by guests living outside Latvia.