VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Valletta?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleValletta
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 7 points.7
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score8477
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km722
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score4558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1835
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 41 points.41
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score2061
Museums within 10 km1446
Museums within 2 km of centre629
Share of museums within 2 km %4363
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score3447
Drinking venues within 4 km259522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5648
Nightclubs within 4 km1827
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 35 points.35
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score8146
Protected land share 50 km %20
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %516
Park area within 2 km45 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 27 points.27
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score1946
Tourist attractions within 2 km232
Park area within 2 km45 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 61 points.61
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score061
Notable places within 2 km2133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score4369
Price level global10062.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
Fort LauderdaleValletta
Score7679
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
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 2026-10, 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleValletta
Official languageEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m56 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleValletta
City population182,7606,444
People per km²1,8298,055
Museums within 10 km615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2555
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.