VacationSelector

Gdansk or Valletta?

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

Your match

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

GdanskValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 22 points.22
GdanskValletta
Score5577
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km2022
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 6 points.6
GdanskValletta
Score5258
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2835
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 4 points.4
GdanskValletta
Score5761
Museums within 10 km4346
Museums within 2 km of centre2829
Share of museums within 2 km %6563
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 11 points.11
GdanskValletta
Score3647
Drinking venues within 4 km269522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7548
Nightclubs within 4 km3027
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
GdanskValletta
Score4546
Protected land share 50 km %12—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %706
Park area within 2 km61 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 29 points.29
GdanskValletta
Score7546
Tourist attractions within 2 km10832
Park area within 2 km61 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
GdanskValletta
Score5261
Notable places within 2 km76133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 10 points.10
GdanskValletta
Score7969
Price level global4962.8
Daily budget€133€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 27 points.27
GdanskValletta
Score5279
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months36
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€78-100
MLA · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
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

MeasureGdanskValletta
Official languagePolishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m56 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskValletta
City population487,8346,444
People per km²7148,055
Museums within 10 km3715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre4855
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). 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. 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.