VacationSelector

Galway or Valletta?

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

Your match

Galway
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

GalwayValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
GalwayValletta
Score5177
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1322
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 21 points.21
GalwayValletta
Score3758
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 41 points.41
GalwayValletta
Score2061
Museums within 10 km546
Museums within 2 km of centre529
Share of museums within 2 km %10063
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 21 points.21
GalwayValletta
Score2647
Drinking venues within 4 km185522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8348
Nightclubs within 4 km827
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 9 points.9
GalwayValletta
Score5546
Protected land share 50 km %
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %856
Park area within 2 km65 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 21 points.21
GalwayValletta
Score2546
Tourist attractions within 2 km532
Park area within 2 km65 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 39 points.39
GalwayValletta
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
GalwayValletta
Score5769
Price level global80.262.8
Daily budget€187€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
GalwayValletta
Score5479
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
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
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
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. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGalwayValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
3 h 40 m
€93-146
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
KrakowKRK
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 35 m
€98-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
2 h 40 m
€129-156
1 stop
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

MeasureGalwayValletta
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
Elevation25 m56 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayValletta
City population83,4566,444
People per km²1,5638,055
Museums within 10 km415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2555
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.