VacationSelector

Milan or Valletta?

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

Your match

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MilanValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
MilanValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance120 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 12 points.12
MilanValletta
Score7058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,991416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 13 points.13
MilanValletta
Score7461
Museums within 10 km8746
Museums within 2 km of centre5529
Share of museums within 2 km %6363
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Milan leads by 28 points.28
MilanValletta
Score7547
Drinking venues within 4 km2,215522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4348
Nightclubs within 4 km7027
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 19 points.19
MilanValletta
Score6546
Protected land share 50 km %30
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km102 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 31 points.31
MilanValletta
Score7746
Tourist attractions within 2 km7632
Park area within 2 km102 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 13 points.13
MilanValletta
Score7461
Notable places within 2 km266133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
MilanValletta
Score6869
Price level global64.962.8
Daily budget€155€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
MilanValletta
Score6479
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Milan
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMilanValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 55 m
€36-88
MXP · 40 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
9 h 20 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

MeasureMilanValletta
Official languageItalianEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation138 m56 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanValletta
City population1,354,1966,444
People per km²7,4538,055
Museums within 10 km8715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre7955
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.