VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Valletta?

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

Your match

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

Las VegasValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
Las VegasValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance372 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasValletta
Score6258
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2435
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 42 points.42
Las VegasValletta
Score1961
Museums within 10 km2446
Museums within 2 km of centre429
Share of museums within 2 km %1763
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 11 points.11
Las VegasValletta
Score5847
Drinking venues within 4 km793522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6148
Nightclubs within 4 km9027
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 17 points.17
Las VegasValletta
Score6346
Protected land share 50 km %50
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km7 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
Las VegasValletta
Score3446
Tourist attractions within 2 km1932
Park area within 2 km7 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 10 points.10
Las VegasValletta
Score5161
Notable places within 2 km75133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
Las VegasValletta
Score4369
Price level global10062.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
Las VegasValletta
Score7279
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months126
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
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. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLas VegasValletta
Official languageEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m56 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasValletta
City population641,9036,444
People per km²1,8438,055
Museums within 10 km2115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4955
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.