VacationSelector

Montpellier or Valletta?

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

Your match

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

MontpellierValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 45 points.45
MontpellierValletta
Score3277
Swim season months26
Beaches 10 km822
Coast distance9 km0 km
Water distance9 km0 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 7 points.7
MontpellierValletta
Score6558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3435
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 35 points.35
MontpellierValletta
Score2661
Museums within 10 km1446
Museums within 2 km of centre329
Share of museums within 2 km %2163
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
MontpellierValletta
Score3847
Drinking venues within 4 km318522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8348
Nightclubs within 4 km2527
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierValletta
Score4346
Protected land share 50 km %15—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %706
Park area within 2 km55 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierValletta
Score4446
Tourist attractions within 2 km832
Park area within 2 km55 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 23 points.23
MontpellierValletta
Score3861
Notable places within 2 km35133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
MontpellierValletta
Score6269
Price level global73.762.8
Daily budget€160€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 5 points.5
MontpellierValletta
Score7479
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months56
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
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
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. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierValletta
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 55 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
55 m
€42-83
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

MeasureMontpellierValletta
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m56 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierValletta
City population310,2406,444
People per km²5,4528,055
Museums within 10 km1415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6555
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months6 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). 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. 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.