11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
-0°
Feels like -4°
Wind↑ SE 11 km/h
Gusts22 km/h
Humidity 61 %
Evening
Clear sky
0°
Feels like -3°
Wind↑ SSE 10 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 77 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
-1°
Feels like -4°
Wind↑ SSE 10 km/h
Humidity 87 %
Evening
Clear sky
1°
Feels like -3°
Wind↑ S 12 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 88 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
1°
Feels like -3°
Wind↑ SSW 16 km/h
Gusts35 km/h
Humidity 94 %
Evening
Overcast
4°
Feels like -1°
Wind↑ S 23 km/h
Gusts43 km/h
Humidity 81 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Light rain
3°
Feels like -2°
Wind↑ S 23 km/h
Gusts43 km/h
Humidity 89 %
💧 2.2 mm
Riga forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Riga climate: what a normal year looks like
From 17 h 52 min of daylight in late June to 6 h 43 min in late December.
Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −6 °C in February.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 22 °C; the coldest is February, when nights average −6 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 21 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 45 mm and 83 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 9 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (10 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
−1 °C
−5 °C
55 mm
Feb
−1 °C
−6 °C
46 mm
Mar
3 °C
−3 °C
45 mm
Apr
11 °C
3 °C
47 mm
May
15 °C
7 °C
58 mm
Jun
19 °C
12 °C
80 mm
Jul
22 °C
15 °C
80 mm
Aug
21 °C
14 °C
83 mm
Sep
17 °C
10 °C
70 mm
Oct
10 °C
5 °C
79 mm
Nov
5 °C
1 °C
63 mm
Dec
1 °C
−2 °C
56 mm
Whole year
10 °C
4 °C
760 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 56.95° N, 24.11° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Riga: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.520µg/m³
PM1025µg/m³
O₃29µg/m³
NO₂8µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Riga
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Riga, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Riga
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:22 Set 21:50
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Riga); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Riga
Curious about the weather in Riga on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Riga weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Riga, Riga: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 9 °C (feels like 8 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.
Expected range today: 7 °C to 10 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
Riga weather data for developers
Use the Riga forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.
