Getting Around Riga
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Riga International Airport / RIX
Riga International Airport (RIX)
There are direct flights to Riga from more than 85 cities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The Latvian national airline, airBaltic (www.airbaltic.com), provides easy and convenient connections to all the major airports in Europe and CIS countries.
Riga International Airport (www.riga-airport.com) is only ten kilometres southwest of the Riga city centre. A taxi ride from the airport to central Riga takes between ten and twenty minutes, depending on traffic, and costs approximately EUR 10–13.
Bus no. 22 runs to and from the airport and departs every 10–20 minutes from opposite the bus terminal building near the Old Town, and the fare costs EUR 2.00.
Airport Information: phone (00 371) 2931 1817. For information in English about all transport schedules, call 1188 (when in Latvia) or (00 371) 6700 1188 (from outside Latvia).
There are direct flights to Riga from more than 85 cities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. The Latvian national airline, airBaltic (www.airbaltic.com), provides easy and convenient connections to all the major airports in Europe and CIS countries.
Riga International Airport (www.riga-airport.com) is only ten kilometres southwest of the Riga city centre. A taxi ride from the airport to central Riga takes between ten and twenty minutes, depending on traffic, and costs approximately EUR 10–13.
Bus no. 22 runs to and from the airport and departs every 10–20 minutes from opposite the bus terminal building near the Old Town, and the fare costs EUR 2.00.
Airport Information: phone (00 371) 2931 1817. For information in English about all transport schedules, call 1188 (when in Latvia) or (00 371) 6700 1188 (from outside Latvia).
Riga Public transportation
Riga has four methods of public transportation – tram, trolleybus, bus and expressbuss.
Public transport operates between 5:30 and 23:30. Timetables, fares and purchase information are available in Latvian, Russian and English at www.rigassatiksme.lv.
Transit bus No 22 operates between Riga International Airport and the city centre.
Tickets in paper can be purchased in advance - at newspaper and magazine kiosks or at ticket vending machines.
It is possible to purchase an e-ticket for a certain number of rides:
one ride EUR 1,15,
five rides EUR 5,75,
ten rides EUR 10,90 and
twenty rides EUR 20,70.
It is also possible to purchase a 24-hour ticket EUR 5,00,
a three-day ticket EUR 10,00, or
a five-day ticket EUR 15,00.
There is also a code ticket, which allows to make payments for the trips with a smartphone in online mode. In order to use the code ticket, the customers will have to install a mobile application on their smartphones (the download link here).
Passengers without a valid ticket are subject to penalty fare of 20 to 50 euros.
Baggage transportation information on Riga public transportation can be found here
Public transport operates between 5:30 and 23:30. Timetables, fares and purchase information are available in Latvian, Russian and English at www.rigassatiksme.lv.
Transit bus No 22 operates between Riga International Airport and the city centre.
Tickets in paper can be purchased in advance - at newspaper and magazine kiosks or at ticket vending machines.
It is possible to purchase an e-ticket for a certain number of rides:
one ride EUR 1,15,
five rides EUR 5,75,
ten rides EUR 10,90 and
twenty rides EUR 20,70.
It is also possible to purchase a 24-hour ticket EUR 5,00,
a three-day ticket EUR 10,00, or
a five-day ticket EUR 15,00.
There is also a code ticket, which allows to make payments for the trips with a smartphone in online mode. In order to use the code ticket, the customers will have to install a mobile application on their smartphones (the download link here).
Passengers without a valid ticket are subject to penalty fare of 20 to 50 euros.
Baggage transportation information on Riga public transportation can be found here
