VacationSelector

Brussels or Valletta?

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

Your match

Brussels
56
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
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.

BrusselsValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
BrusselsValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance56 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 23 points.23
BrusselsValletta
Score8158
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4435
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 19 points.19
BrusselsValletta
Score8061
Museums within 10 km12046
Museums within 2 km of centre5929
Share of museums within 2 km %4963
Unesco sites within 50 km103
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 21 points.21
BrusselsValletta
Score6847
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6148
Nightclubs within 4 km8427
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
BrusselsValletta
Score3146
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km65 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 10 points.10
BrusselsValletta
Score5646
Tourist attractions within 2 km2832
Park area within 2 km65 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 12 points.12
BrusselsValletta
Score7361
Notable places within 2 km254133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
BrusselsValletta
Score6069
Price level global76.262.8
Daily budget€180€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 22 points.22
BrusselsValletta
Score5779
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months06
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
9 h 20 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

MeasureBrusselsValletta
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m56 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsValletta
City population195,5466,444
People per km²5,9088,055
Museums within 10 km10515
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km103
Distinct cuisines in the centre10955
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.