How extreme does Riga's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Riga has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 29 years of daily weather observations (1996–present), from the Dobele station 60 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Riga has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

95°F Aug 3, 2014

The three most extreme on record

1 95°F Aug 3, 2014

2 95°F Aug 4, 2014

3 94°F Aug 8, 2013

❄️ Coldest night

-18°F Feb 5, 2012

The three most extreme on record

1 -18°F Feb 5, 2012

2 -18°F Jan 27, 2010

3 -16°F Feb 6, 2012

🌧️ Most rain in one day

2.91 in Oct 14, 2014

The three most extreme on record

1 2.91 in Oct 14, 2014

2 2.52 in Jun 14, 2009

3 2.09 in Jul 1, 2014

In plain terms

Across the record, Riga has reached as high as 95°F and as low as −18°F. A single day has delivered over 3 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 5 years of daily observations at Riga, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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