VacationSelector

Calgary or Valletta?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
CalgaryValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 8 points.8
CalgaryValletta
Score6658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3635
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 52 points.52
CalgaryValletta
Score961
Museums within 10 km846
Museums within 2 km of centre329
Share of museums within 2 km %3863
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryValletta
Score4447
Drinking venues within 4 km465522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7448
Nightclubs within 4 km1927
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 10 points.10
CalgaryValletta
Score3646
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km142 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryValletta
Score4146
Tourist attractions within 2 km332
Park area within 2 km142 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryValletta
Score3961
Notable places within 2 km37133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
CalgaryValletta
Score5469
Price level global8462.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryValletta
Score5779
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months86
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 40 m
€93-146
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 45 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureCalgaryValletta
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m56 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryValletta
City population1,306,7846,444
People per km²1,5838,055
Museums within 10 km1315
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6755
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.