VacationSelector

Dublin or Valletta?

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

Your match

Dublin
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

DublinValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 28 points.28
DublinValletta
Score4977
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1122
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 12 points.12
DublinValletta
Score7058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3735
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 6 points.6
DublinValletta
Score5561
Museums within 10 km4746
Museums within 2 km of centre3729
Share of museums within 2 km %7963
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 17 points.17
DublinValletta
Score6447
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7548
Nightclubs within 4 km4027
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 20 points.20
DublinValletta
Score2646
Protected land share 50 km %3—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %626
Park area within 2 km43 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 8 points.8
DublinValletta
Score5446
Tourist attractions within 2 km4132
Park area within 2 km43 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 1 points.1
DublinValletta
Score6261
Notable places within 2 km141133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
DublinValletta
Score5769
Price level global80.262.8
Daily budget€187€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
DublinValletta
Score5479
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€53-95
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€200-272
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinValletta
Official languageEnglish, IrishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m56 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinValletta
City population592,7136,444
People per km²5,1548,055
Museums within 10 km4015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7455
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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). 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. 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.