Rigatemperature
Riga is the 215th hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean.
No reading held for this station right now.
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 42.8°F.
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
31 July 2002. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1943 to 2004
1 February 1956. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1943 to 2004
Where Riga stands
Riga by month
Normal high · record high with its day · record low with its day- Jan28.6°FHigh 48.9°F · 3 Jan 1992Low −28.7°F · 30 Jan 1970
- Feb29.3°FHigh 56.3°F · 24 Feb 1990Low −30.8°F · 1 Feb 1956
- Mar37.6°FHigh 68.9°F · 30 Mar 1968Low −9.9°F · 1 Mar 1960
- Apr50.4°FHigh 82.2°F · 24 Apr 2000Low 11.5°F · 14 Apr 1997
- May61.7°FHigh 86.7°F · 29 May 1995Low 22.5°F · 1 May 1944
- Jun68.5°FHigh 90.5°F · 7 Jun 1988Low 29.8°F · 1 Jun 1965
- Jul · warmest
Nearby, hottest and coldest
Within 53 km · 2 stations reporting61 Julys at Riga
Full trend →Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Riga by annual mean.
How Riga’s temperature has been recorded
How hot does it get in Riga?
July is the warmest month at Riga, averaging a daily high of 71.8°F. That is an average of every July day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Riga?
January is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 28.6°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 75.2°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Riga?
93.4°F, on 31 July 2002, in the record held for Riga. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Riga?
−30.8°F, on 1 February 1956, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
When did temperature records begin in Riga?
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from the reporting national meteorological service at Riga. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.