VacationSelector

Inverness or Valletta?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

InvernessValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 49 points.49
InvernessValletta
Score2877
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 37 points.37
InvernessValletta
Score2158
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1135
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 41 points.41
InvernessValletta
Score2061
Museums within 10 km646
Museums within 2 km of centre529
Share of museums within 2 km %8363
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 32 points.32
InvernessValletta
Score1547
Drinking venues within 4 km113522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8748
Nightclubs within 4 km427
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 37 points.37
InvernessValletta
Score946
Protected land share 50 km %12—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %886
Park area within 2 km3 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 46 points.46
InvernessValletta
Score046
Tourist attractions within 2 km332
Park area within 2 km3 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 37 points.37
InvernessValletta
Score2461
Notable places within 2 km16133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
InvernessValletta
Score5469
Price level global84.962.8
Daily budget—€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 27 points.27
InvernessValletta
Score5279
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months16
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
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. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 35 m
€98-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 40 m
€93-146
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BelfastBFS, BHD
1 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 45 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

MeasureInvernessValletta
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
Elevation7 m56 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessValletta
City population47,3806,444
People per km²2,2898,055
Museums within 10 km315
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre1555
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.