VacationSelector

Bled or Valletta?

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

Your match

Bled
28
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BledValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
BledValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km322
Coast distance76 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 39 points.39
BledValletta
Score1958
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1335
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 34 points.34
BledValletta
Score2761
Museums within 10 km1646
Museums within 2 km of centre129
Share of museums within 2 km %663
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 45 points.45
BledValletta
Score247
Drinking venues within 4 km43522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8448
Nightclubs within 4 km127
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
BledValletta
Score3346
Protected land share 50 km %20—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km9 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 29 points.29
BledValletta
Score1746
Tourist attractions within 2 km732
Park area within 2 km9 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 39 points.39
BledValletta
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 3 points.3
BledValletta
Score7269
Price level global59.662.8
Daily budget€131€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 22 points.22
BledValletta
Score5779
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months26
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
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bled
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
2
2
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. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 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

MeasureBledValletta
Official languageSloveneEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m56 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledValletta
City population4,9696,444
People per km²268,055
Museums within 10 km415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre1755
Swim season, months above 21 °C–6 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.