How to travel to Riga?

Air Fare

Most participants will prefer to travel by plane. Riga International Airport is twenty minutes off from the city centre. A taxi ride shouldn’t cost more than 10 LVL (15 EUR), you may as well take the AirBaltic-Airport Express for 3 LVL or 5 EUR, or for 0,70 LVL the public bus transport which departs every 30 minutes from the bus-stop opposite to the airport exit (bus line number is 22).

The most important European airports from where direct flights to Riga are offered:

London, Paris, Frankfurt, Zurich, Munich, Barcelona, Milan, Rome, Venice, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscou, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Kopenhagen, Hamburg.

Airlines offering direct flights to Riga:

  • Air Baltic (direct flights from more than 50 cities in Europe and Asia: Aalesund, Almaty, Athens, Baku, Barcelona, Bergen, Berlin, Billund, Brussels, Chisinau, Copenhagen, Dublin, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Dushanbe, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hannover, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hurghada, Istanbul, Kaunas, Kaliningrad, Kiev, Kuopio, Kishinev, Lappeenranta, London, Milan, Minsk, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Odessa, Oslo, Oulu, Palanga, Paris, Pskov, Riga, Rome, Sharm El Sheikh, Simferopol, Stavanger, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Tartu, Tromsoe, Turku, Yerevan, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zurich)
  • Ryanair (from Bremen, Brussels, Dublin, Dusseldorf, East Midlands, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Milan, Stockholm, Tampere)
  • Czech Air (from Prague)
  • LOT (from Warsaw)
  • Lufthansa (from Frankfurt)
  • Aeroflot (from Moscow)
  • Finnair (from Helsinki)
  • Norwegian Air (from Oslo, Trondheim)
  • Turkish Airlines (from Istanbul)
  • Uzbekistan Airways (from Tashkent, New York)

Bus Lines

A bus trip is an alternative to the flight for traveling to Riga, however it is not always cheaper and is certainly less comfortable. However, for those who find it inspiring to complete their paper “on the road”, or those who just love slow-mobility, overland-busses are recommended. The final stop is five minutes walk to the oldtown, the area where most of the recommended hotels and hostels are located.

“Ecolines”and “Eurolines” offer trips from several dozens of European cities. Both are reliable and rather comfortable.

Train Lines

There are train lines connecting Riga to/from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vilnius, etc. For more information please see the Latvian Railway page.

Ferry Lines

If you travel from Stockholm, there is also a ferry line connection to Riga. Travel time from Stockholm is ca. 17 hours.