VacationSelector

Glasgow or Valletta?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
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.

GlasgowValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 41 points.41
GlasgowValletta
Score3677
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km322
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowValletta
Score6358
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowValletta
Score4561
Museums within 10 km3246
Museums within 2 km of centre1329
Share of museums within 2 km %4163
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 16 points.16
GlasgowValletta
Score6347
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6148
Nightclubs within 4 km7327
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
GlasgowValletta
Score3846
Protected land share 50 km %16—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %916
Park area within 2 km56 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowValletta
Score4146
Tourist attractions within 2 km1332
Park area within 2 km56 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
GlasgowValletta
Score5361
Notable places within 2 km80133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
GlasgowValletta
Score5469
Price level global84.962.8
Daily budget—€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowValletta
Score4379
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureGlasgowValletta
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m56 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowValletta
City population626,4106,444
People per km²1908,055
Museums within 10 km2915
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre5455
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.