Sources

For overviews, place context and event listings we lean on Latvia's official tourism channels. These are our first stop for the 'what is this and why does it matter' background, and for confirming whether a sight or event is currently open or running.

Transport is one of the most volatile things we cover, so we point to the operators' own pages for current fares, ticket types and service alerts rather than copying figures that age. Riga's city network (trams, trolleybuses and buses) is run by Rīgas Satiksme; suburban and regional trains — including Jūrmala, Sigulda and Ķemeri — run on Vivi (Pasažieru vilciens).

For ticketed sights we prefer the venue's own page, which is the most reliable place to confirm current admission, opening hours and last-entry times before you build your day around them.

Our day-trip pages point to the relevant reserve, palace or park operator for current prices, seasons and opening times — the facts most likely to have changed since we last reviewed a page.

Where we include lightweight history or definitions, we may link well-established reference material so you can go deeper for context — used sparingly, and never as a substitute for an official source on anything time-sensitive.

Before you go, take a minute to confirm the details that change most often. Our guides keep the big picture stable, but these are the ones worth a fresh look against the official sources above:

Official URLs and the structure of these sites do change over time. We re-check the links on this page during reviews, but if you hit a dead link or notice an operator or venue has moved to a new official site, tell us and we'll update it. The categories above are deliberately stable — official tourism, transport, venues, day trips and reference — even as individual links are refreshed.

If a source we'd normally point to is temporarily unavailable when you're planning, a quick search for the venue or operator's name plus 'official' will usually surface the right page; we'd always rather you reach the primary source than rely on a figure copied into a guide that may have aged.