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Riga International Airport (RIX)

Riga International Airport (RIX, EVRA) serves Riga, Latvia. Flights leaving RIX left an average of 10.2 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 9th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 7.1 million passengers used it in the twelve months to June 2026, most often flying to or from Helsinki.

Delays at RIX

Average departure delay per flight: 10.2 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in July (19.6 min) and lightest in May (5.0 min).

Average departure delay per flight from RIX, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 20259.6 min2,831
September 202510.7 min2,771
October 202511.9 min2,771
November 20256.6 min2,374
December 20258.9 min2,474
January 202613.3 min2,166
February 202610.7 min2,053
March 20265.1 min2,559
April 20267.3 min2,733
May 20265.0 min2,837
June 202612.7 min2,850
July 202619.6 min3,035

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.0% of arrivals at RIX for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (80% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at RIX

7,065,511 passengers used RIX in the twelve months to June 2026, on 57,954 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at RIX, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
July 2025701,9015,241
August 2025688,9415,245
September 2025628,3875,092
October 2025673,4395,219
November 2025540,5824,437
December 2025557,4994,568
January 2026442,1663,972
February 2026434,0343,741
March 2026534,5654,670
April 2026583,9295,107
May 2026623,5275,345
June 2026656,5415,317

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from RIX

  1. Helsinki Vantaa (HEL)393,826 passengers
  2. Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN)323,306 passengers
  3. Tallinn-ulemiste International (TLL)303,807 passengers
  4. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)274,415 passengers
  5. Oslo Lufthavn (OSL)256,335 passengers
  6. Vilnius (VNO)254,129 passengers
  7. London Stansted (STN)243,831 passengers
  8. Vienna (VIE)230,272 passengers
  9. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)225,601 passengers
  10. Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH)213,288 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Riga (RIX)?
Flights leaving RIX left an average of 10.2 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 9th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at RIX?
July 2026, when flights left an average of 19.6 minutes late; the lightest month was May 2026 (5.0 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at RIX?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At RIX in the last year the biggest cause was weather (80% of those minutes), then air traffic control (20%).

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