VacationSelector

Bangkok or Valletta?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 37 points.37
BangkokValletta
Score4077
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance23 km0 km
Water distance23 km0 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokValletta
Score8358
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
BangkokValletta
Score4661
Museums within 10 km10346
Museums within 2 km of centre3029
Share of museums within 2 km %2963
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 36 points.36
BangkokValletta
Score8347
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4148
Nightclubs within 4 km7227
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 5 points.5
BangkokValletta
Score5146
Protected land share 50 km %——
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %836
Park area within 2 km42 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
BangkokValletta
Score5746
Tourist attractions within 2 km3132
Park area within 2 km42 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
BangkokValletta
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km62133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 24 points.24
BangkokValletta
Score9369
Price level global29.762.8
Daily budget—€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 23 points.23
BangkokValletta
Score5679
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months36
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
11 h 0 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBangkokValletta
Official languageThaiEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m56 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokValletta
City population5,676,6486,444
People per km²3,6198,055
Museums within 10 km5915
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre9155
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.