VacationSelector

Maastricht or Valencia?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

MaastrichtValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
MaastrichtValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km612
Coast distance118 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 30 points.30
MaastrichtValencia
Score4878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3381,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtValencia
Score5355
Museums within 10 km2359
Museums within 2 km of centre1326
Share of museums within 2 km %5744
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 40 points.40
MaastrichtValencia
Score3070
Drinking venues within 4 km2231,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8263
Nightclubs within 4 km13108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
MaastrichtValencia
Score3753
Protected land share 50 km %1910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km33 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
MaastrichtValencia
Score4642
Tourist attractions within 2 km1512
Park area within 2 km33 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
MaastrichtValencia
Score3652
Notable places within 2 km3278
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
MaastrichtValencia
Score5871
Price level global79.260.8
Daily budget€181€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 25 points.25
MaastrichtValencia
Score5984
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
LGG · 29 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
50 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
2 h 50 m
€91
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 85 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureMaastrichtValencia
Official languageDutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m15 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtValencia
City population120,227840,792
People per km²2,0006,242
Museums within 10 km2146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre3392
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.