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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 237 reviews |
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| 🌍 Region | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Latvia |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 22 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 19°C 65°F + Humid (66%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 14 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 97 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app (in country) | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Bite |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 118 |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | StartupLatvia |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 14% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 640,000 people |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 39% 👱♀️ 61% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Baltic |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Baltic |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,144 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,273 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,538 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $725 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $463 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $87 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,270 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $59 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (147 listings) | $1,335 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $44 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $11 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.98 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Humid now
❌ Nomad List members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many members right now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 21-6° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 341° cold | 5211° cool | 5915° cool | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 5915° cool | 5211° cool | 394° cold | 362° cold |
| Real | 28-2° freezing | 362° very cold | 394° very cold | 5412° cool | 5915° cool | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 5915° cool | 5412° cool | 436° very cold | 415° very cold |
| Humidity | damp 73% | damp 78% | nice 69% | nice 54% | nice 64% | nice 64% | nice 69% | nice 68% | nice 66% | damp 77% | damp 81% | damp 77% |
| Rain | dry 29mm | dry 22mm | dry 24mm | dry 3mm | dry 50mm | dry 20mm | dry 45mm | dry 22mm | dry 44mm | dry 45mm | dry 36mm | dry 27mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 87% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 76% | pockets 16% | cloudy 71% | pockets 41% | pockets 45% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 86% | overcast 96% | overcast 94% |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 3 people | 3 people | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people |
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