VacationSelector

Maastricht or Valletta?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MaastrichtValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
MaastrichtValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km622
Coast distance118 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtValletta
Score4858
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
MaastrichtValletta
Score5361
Museums within 10 km2346
Museums within 2 km of centre1329
Share of museums within 2 km %5763
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
MaastrichtValletta
Score3047
Drinking venues within 4 km223522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8248
Nightclubs within 4 km1327
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
MaastrichtValletta
Score3746
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km33 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht and Valletta are level on 46.
MaastrichtValletta
Score4646
Tourist attractions within 2 km1532
Park area within 2 km33 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
MaastrichtValletta
Score3661
Notable places within 2 km32133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtValletta
Score5869
Price level global79.262.8
Daily budget€181€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 20 points.20
MaastrichtValletta
Score5979
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
2 h 15 m
€86-113
MLA · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 55 m
€78-100
MLA · 6 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 35 m
€98-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 40 m
€98-110
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€111-137
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureMaastrichtValletta
Official languageDutchEnglish, 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 number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m56 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtValletta
City population120,2276,444
People per km²2,0008,055
Museums within 10 km2115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre3355
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Maastricht or Valletta somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.