Hitchhiking from Riga
Hitchhiking to Riga
Recent reviews mentioning Riga
55.81116, 24.3681
Good spot to get a direct ride to Riga, a lot of Latvians stop here. After asking around for 45 minutes it worked for me.rating: 4/5, wait: 45 min 💬+🪧, ride: 159 km ↑
―Argeros, Sun 07 Sep 2025, 16:00
54.95905, 23.86685
After asking around for 30 minutes with sign Riga got a ride to Panevezys. There are a lot of truck drivers but it didn't help me to get a direct lift to Riga.rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 💬+🪧, ride: 125 km ↑
―Argeros, Sun 07 Sep 2025, 14:00
56.89732, 24.13859
There is a bus stop: "Neilandi", the bus 26 go there from city and across the road is the sign of RIGA.Firstly I try to hitchhiking with the sign Vilnius but after 30 min with no result, I change the sing to Bauska. After this in 5 min one driver stopped and bring me to Bauska
rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 69 km ↓
―Roman21, Wed 10 Sep 2025, 09:30
56.8845, 24.15204
the bus stations does not exist anymore😭 The highway is not available, so you have to Hitch on the district roads where everyone heading to Riga.rating: 1/5
―Anonymous, September 2025
57.06958, 24.31838
Not the best spot, lots of locals, but there is space to stop on the side and gas station nearby (Circle K) if you want to ask. Ended up taking the bus into Riga 2€ after 15 minutes.rating: 3/5
―friki, Sat 23 Aug 2025, 18:35
59.44461, 24.75832
Good spot to catch cars/trucks out of the ferry, there's space to stop and entrance to a parking. If you come in the Viking Line you will have time to catch at least the last half of the vehicles heading out. Got a truck almost all the way to Riga. Solo female, in the middle of a storm, sign Latvia.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 330 km ↓
―friki, Sat 23 Aug 2025, 13:15
57.26911, 25.27405
2nd car stoped directly to rigarating: 5/5, wait: 2 min, ride: 94 km ↙
―paule, August 2025
55.6697, 24.34891
Restaurant and 2 gas stations, but the traffic was very low on monday morning. Decided to hitchhike by the road just before the station. Cars ignored us, finally someone came and offered us a ride to Riga. I guess we were unlucky, spot looked decent.rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 174 km ↑
―Tobiacha, Mon 11 Aug 2025, 11:29
56.67253, 23.08977
Towards Riga, but on a pretty big corner so cars are cautious and during evening no lights, the spot at the railroad crossing is probably way better, as well as using the crossroad to go to Dobele, but here I'd estimate you'd need to wait at least a hour.rating: 2/5
―estohiker, August 2025
56.66372, 22.97016
Amazing spot towards Riga direction, speed camera in 50km/h area just before the bus stop as well as the stop being itself very wide and comfortable for drivers to stop, wait times of 5-15 minutes expectedrating: 5/5
―estohiker, August 2025
57.87654, 24.38299
Had to wait for a while, but eventually got a ride till Riga.rating: 4/5, wait: 50 min
―Anonymous, August 2025
56.56703, 21.27472
Works well, watch out for the trucks driving on high speed. Waited 15min in a Friday evening, got a ride to Riga.rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min 👍, ride: 223 km →
―Toukotolpo, August 2025
56.97105, 21.9892
I thought there was no need to go to the next bus stop so i stayed here.First car went to Riga, put me where i wanted and i ended with food, drinks and ice cream 😅
So i was very lucky, 'cause there are not a lot of cars going by
rating: 4/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 114 km →
―cabalkin, July 2025
58.92109, 24.45728
Many cars that go to the Latvia. We talked to 3 drivers and found a drive almost to Rigarating: 5/5, ride: 230 km ↓
―kepker, Mon 21 Jul 2025, 19:40
57.3534, 24.43857
Aldo the traffic was really low probably because of en early hour I've menage to get ride all the way to Riga pretty quicklyrating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 291 km ↑
―Anonymous, Sun 06 Jul 2025, 06:40
55.14227, 23.97785
Not to much traffic but there is a bus bay which is so big that even a truck can stop. Got ride to the outskirts of Rigarating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 235 km ↑
―Anonymous, Sat 05 Jul 2025, 11:40
56.36404, 23.6737
Great spot for going north, went directly to riga.rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 87 km ↑
―Anonymous, June 2025
59.34045, 24.60829
Roundabout before ramp to Pärnu. Great place to get to forward and even to Riga.Drivers will see you already from other side of roundabout and there's space to stop to side of the road. I went there during evening so I beleive it's even easier during the day.
rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 133 km ↓
―Andy, June 2025
58.35663, 24.57456
Plenty of space for cars to stop. On my way to Rigarating: 4/5, wait: 40 min 🪧, ride: 10 km ↓
―JoonatanJ, June 2025
54.74323, 25.22232
I tried to catch Riga, finally I changed the nameplate to panavezys and managed to get out smoothlyrating: 5/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 157 km ↖
―wiechu2364, June 2025