St Petersburg to Riga runs about 2 times a day, with the first departure around 06:27 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €56.19 and €67.40, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 13m over 506 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares
€56.19 to €67.40
- 188%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving St Petersburg
No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.
- 06:27First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 2Services per day
- 50%Run direct
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €100.44Mon14
- about €111.65Tue15
- about €115.78Wed16
- about €110.47Thu17
- about €98.67Fri18
- about €86.28Sat19
- about €89.23Sun20
- about €67.40Mon21
- about €70.94Tue22
- about €73.89Wed23
- about €76.25Thu24
- about €74.48Fri25
- about €82.74Sat26
- about €81.56Sun27
- about €65.63Mon28
- about €59.14Tue29
- about €67.99Wed30
- about €73.30Thu1
- about €66.81Fri2
- about €73.30Sat3
- about €56.19Sun4
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
The flight gets you into Riga. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Riga for the night the flight gets in
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When to book St Petersburg to Riga
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €67.4090 days
- €48.5260 days
- €50.2945 days
- €40.2630 days
- €56.1921 days
- €81.5614 days
- €89.237 days
- €115.783 days
- €100.441 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €40.26.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 188 percent. The most expensive point is €115.78, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to St Petersburg to Riga and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
506 km
491 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-west.
Who lives at each end
5,351,935 → 742,572
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
How we know
Observed
Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.
The route
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 506 km against 491 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Vantaa, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Vilnius. The gap between arriving and leaving is 67 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
The fare from RIX into Riga is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Riga
Settled in advance, so the ride into Riga costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Who runs this route
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Baggage storage near Riga Centrala
Most of the points near Riga Centrala open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about St Petersburg to Riga
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does it take to get from St Petersburg to Riga?
The fastest journey from St Petersburg to Riga takes 4h 13m door to door, of which 1h 7m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 16m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
How much does it cost to travel from St Petersburg to Riga?
The cheapest fare from St Petersburg to Riga is €56.19, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €74.48. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from St Petersburg to Riga?
The cheapest way from St Petersburg to Riga is by flight, at €67.40 for one passenger on October 4, 2026. That journey takes 4h 17m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
When should I book St Petersburg to Riga?
Fares from St Petersburg to Riga bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €40.26. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 188 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for St Petersburg to Riga?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from St Petersburg to Riga, at €67.40. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 13, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for St Petersburg to Riga?
December is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from St Petersburg to Riga, at €46.16 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
Who runs service from St Petersburg to Riga?
1 operators sell services from St Petersburg to Riga across 1 mode: Air Baltic. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
Is there a direct service from St Petersburg to Riga?
20 percent of the services we sell from St Petersburg to Riga are direct. The rest connect at Vantaa, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Vilnius, with about 67 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from St Petersburg to Riga use?
Services from St Petersburg to Riga by flight leave from Saint Petersburg LED and arrive at Riga RIX. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
Can I change or refund a ticket from St Petersburg to Riga?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from St Petersburg to Riga allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Where these numbers come from
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for St Petersburg to Riga on September 13, 2026: 506 km of route against 491 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €56.19, and 4h 13m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Being on the water gives Riga a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Riga and across Latvia
Day trips that leave Riga in the morning and cover a good part of Latvia by evening.
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The two ends, compared
St Petersburg reaches 185 places in 42 countries on services we hold, over distances from 42 to 8,745 km. Riga reaches 104 places in 40 countries, from 41 to 6,757 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving St Petersburg
- 185Places you can leave for
- 42Countries
- 74Operators
Arriving in Riga
Leaving Riga
- 104Places you can leave for
- 40Countries
- 31Operators