VacationSelector

Mexico City 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, 2 points apart

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

Mexico CityValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
Mexico CityValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance247 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityValletta
Score6658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
Mexico CityValletta
Score7961
Museums within 10 km13846
Museums within 2 km of centre6529
Share of museums within 2 km %4763
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 31 points.31
Mexico CityValletta
Score7847
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4348
Nightclubs within 4 km19827
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CityValletta
Score6346
Protected land share 50 km %30—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km32 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CityValletta
Score5046
Tourist attractions within 2 km2332
Park area within 2 km32 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityValletta
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityValletta
Score7669
Price level global54.262.8
Daily budget—€129
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 11 points.11
Mexico CityValletta
Score9079
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months66
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 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

MeasureMexico CityValletta
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m56 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityValletta
City population9,209,9446,444
People per km²6,2028,055
Museums within 10 km10815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre5055
Swim season, months above 21 °C–6 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.