VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Valletta?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

Los AngelesValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 48 points.48
Los AngelesValletta
Score2977
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km022
Swim season months06
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesValletta
Score6658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesValletta
Score4961
Museums within 10 km6946
Museums within 2 km of centre2329
Share of museums within 2 km %3363
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 7 points.7
Los AngelesValletta
Score5447
Drinking venues within 4 km660522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6548
Nightclubs within 4 km6427
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
Los AngelesValletta
Score6246
Protected land share 50 km %26—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %806
Park area within 2 km20 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
Los AngelesValletta
Score3346
Tourist attractions within 2 km1132
Park area within 2 km20 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
Los AngelesValletta
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
Los AngelesValletta
Score4369
Price level global10062.8
Daily budget—€129
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesValletta
Score8779
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 55 m
€78-100
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLos AngelesValletta
Official language–English, 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
Elevation106 m56 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesValletta
City population3,898,7476,444
People per km²2,9948,055
Museums within 10 km3815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4655
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. 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.