VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Valletta?

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

Your match

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DubrovnikValletta
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik and Valletta are level on 77.
DubrovnikValletta
Score7777
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km4322
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 20 points.20
DubrovnikValletta
Score3858
Restaurants within 2 km of centre206416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
DubrovnikValletta
Score4961
Museums within 10 km1846
Museums within 2 km of centre1729
Share of museums within 2 km %9463
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 27 points.27
DubrovnikValletta
Score2047
Drinking venues within 4 km128522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8648
Nightclubs within 4 km1327
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 41 points.41
DubrovnikValletta
Score546
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %516
Park area within 2 km6 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
DubrovnikValletta
Score2146
Tourist attractions within 2 km1232
Park area within 2 km6 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
DubrovnikValletta
Score4461
Notable places within 2 km48133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 11 points.11
DubrovnikValletta
Score8069
Price level global48.562.8
Daily budget€138€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 14 points.14
DubrovnikValletta
Score6579
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
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. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ZagrebZAG
1 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€93-125
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 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

MeasureDubrovnikValletta
Official languageCroatianEnglish, 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
Elevation10 m56 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikValletta
City population41,5626,444
People per km²8,055
Museums within 10 km715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre3255
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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.