VacationSelector

Melbourne or Valletta?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Melbourne
60
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
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.

MelbourneValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 22 points.22
MelbourneValletta
Score5577
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1922
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance4 km0 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 17 points.17
MelbourneValletta
Score7558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,888416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneValletta
Score4961
Museums within 10 km4246
Museums within 2 km of centre2429
Share of museums within 2 km %5763
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 27 points.27
MelbourneValletta
Score7447
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6248
Nightclubs within 4 km12427
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneValletta
Score4346
Protected land share 50 km %6—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %816
Park area within 2 km166 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 14 points.14
MelbourneValletta
Score6046
Tourist attractions within 2 km2632
Park area within 2 km166 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 4 points.4
MelbourneValletta
Score5761
Notable places within 2 km103133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 19 points.19
MelbourneValletta
Score5069
Price level global90.262.8
Daily budget—€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
MelbourneValletta
Score7679
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneValletta
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 h 0 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

MeasureMelbourneValletta
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m56 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneValletta
City population5,350,7056,444
People per km²5358,055
Museums within 10 km4215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8655
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.