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The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Bethany Beach or Valletta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bethany Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Bethany Beach’s own page.

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bethany Beach 72, Valletta 68: Bethany Beach leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Bethany Beach 35, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Bethany Beach 10, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Bethany Beach 12, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bethany Beach 48, Valletta 56: Valletta leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bethany Beach 45, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Bethany Beach 66, Valletta 58: Bethany Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bethany Beach 33, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Bethany Beach 28, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Bethany Beach 30, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bethany Beach 14, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bethany Beach 33, Valletta 32: Bethany Beach leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bethany Beach and Valletta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBethany BeachValletta
Official language-English, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m56 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBethany BeachValletta
City population9545,197
People per km²3186,496
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months6 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.