VacationSelector

Izmir or Valletta?

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

Your match

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

IzmirValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 22 points.22
IzmirValletta
Score5577
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
IzmirValletta
Score4958
Restaurants within 2 km of centre770416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1235
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 18 points.18
IzmirValletta
Score4361
Museums within 10 km4746
Museums within 2 km of centre2729
Share of museums within 2 km %5763
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 15 points.15
IzmirValletta
Score6247
Drinking venues within 4 km1,028522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre695250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6848
Nightclubs within 4 km7027
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
IzmirValletta
Score2946
Protected land share 50 km %4—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %846
Park area within 2 km62 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 11 points.11
IzmirValletta
Score3546
Tourist attractions within 2 km632
Park area within 2 km62 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 21 points.21
IzmirValletta
Score4061
Notable places within 2 km39133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 20 points.20
IzmirValletta
Score8969
Price level global35.262.8
Daily budget€100€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
IzmirValletta
Score7279
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months56
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
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. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirValletta
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
5 h 25 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

MeasureIzmirValletta
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m56 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirValletta
City population4,493,2426,444
People per km²4,7608,055
Museums within 10 km2915
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2055
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.