Riga (RIX) to Samarkand (SKD): 2,253 miles (3,627 km) great-circle, about 5h 00m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $651 round-trip on airline 7Q, with 1 stop, departing May 23, 2026.
$651 round-trip, airline 7Q 7Q1912, departing 2026-05-23 at 10:10, returning 2026-07-06. The recorded itinerary left on a Saturday, returning on a Monday 44 nights later; the fare was observed 28 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $651, it ranked 28th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from RIX (median $304). That is 28.9 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), above the RIX median of 24.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from RIX of similar length: Tashkent (2,262 mi) at $417 and Bishkek (2,373 mi) at $610.
airline 7Q had the cheapest fare on 2 of 30 RIX routes. It is the 7th longest of the 30 routes we track from RIX.
Of 17 departure airports with a fare to Samarkand, Riga (RIX) ranked 6th at $651. Lowest: $238 from Istanbul (IST); highest: $2458 from Chicago (MDW); 1 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Turkish (3), airline C6 (2), Azerbaijan Airlines (2), Air Baltic (1), Air Canada (1) and airline 7Q (1), plus 7 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Europe/Riga, Asia/Samarkand; flight time is our estimate.