VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Valletta?

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

Your match

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

LjubljanaValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
LjubljanaValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1022
Coast distance72 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaValletta
Score5558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre292416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4035
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 6 points.6
LjubljanaValletta
Score5561
Museums within 10 km2646
Museums within 2 km of centre2329
Share of museums within 2 km %8863
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 2 points.2
LjubljanaValletta
Score4547
Drinking venues within 4 km458522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6248
Nightclubs within 4 km2427
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 6 points.6
LjubljanaValletta
Score4046
Protected land share 50 km %13
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km75 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
LjubljanaValletta
Score3846
Tourist attractions within 2 km1232
Park area within 2 km75 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaValletta
Score5861
Notable places within 2 km109133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaValletta
Score7269
Price level global59.662.8
Daily budget€131€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 23 points.23
LjubljanaValletta
Score5679
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 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

MeasureLjubljanaValletta
Official languageSloveneEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation309 m56 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaValletta
City population284,2936,444
People per km²1,7368,055
Museums within 10 km1415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre6355
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.