Tukuk-OS🌆 Riga
Latvia · Europe · 56.95°N, 24.11°E
Quick facts
| Country | Latvia |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Europe |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 56.95°N, 24.11°E · view on map |
Riga is in Latvia, a country in Europe. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Riga’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Riga sits on the Earth
At 56.95° north of the equator, Riga is about 6,333 km from the equator itself and 3,675 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it in the boreal zone, where winter days are brief and summer light lingers late, though the true midnight sun starts a little further north. Latitude is only the sky’s address, of course: altitude, oceans and winds write the actual weather, which is why two cities on the same parallel can need overcoats in one place and sun hats in the other. The numbers on this page come straight from the town’s own coordinates.
Two consequences of that latitude anyone can test. On the equinox the midday sun stands 33.0° above the horizon here (straight up at the equator, lower the further you go). And because the Earth is a sphere turning once a day, a point at this latitude is carried around its axis at roughly 913 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Riga sees its longest day lasts about 17.6 hours of daylight and its shortest about 6.4.
Nearest cities on our list: Vilnius (261.7 km to the south-southeast), Tallinn (279.4 km to the north), Helsinki (361.3 km to the north), Minsk (403.2 km to the southeast). Every profile here carries the same arithmetic, so the distances between any two of them can be checked by opening both pages.
The other side of the world: a straight line through the centre of the Earth from Riga emerges at 56.95°S, 155.89°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Dunedin, about 2,600 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.