VacationSelector

Limassol or Valletta?

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

Your match

Limassol
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

LimassolValletta
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 2 points.2
LimassolValletta
Score7977
Swim season months66
Beaches 10 km2722
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
LimassolValletta
Score4358
Restaurants within 2 km of centre298416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1935
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
LimassolValletta
Score4461
Museums within 10 km1746
Museums within 2 km of centre1029
Share of museums within 2 km %5963
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
LimassolValletta
Score3947
Drinking venues within 4 km340522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre256250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7548
Nightclubs within 4 km2027
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 24 points.24
LimassolValletta
Score2246
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %496
Park area within 2 km32 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 30 points.30
LimassolValletta
Score1646
Tourist attractions within 2 km332
Park area within 2 km32 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 47 points.47
LimassolValletta
Score1461
Notable places within 2 km9133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 1 points.1
LimassolValletta
Score7069
Price level global61.462.8
Daily budget€129€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 6 points.6
LimassolValletta
Score8579
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months86
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
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. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
1 h 45 m
€122-197
MLA · 6 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
1 h 40 m
€66-166
MLA · 6 km
BudapestBUD
2 h 45 m
€143-223
PFO · 51 km
2 h 15 m
€86-113
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

MeasureLimassolValletta
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m56 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolValletta
City population107,9706,444
People per km²2,4058,055
Museums within 10 km215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2855
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.