VacationSelector

Mostar or Valletta?

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

Your match

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

MostarValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
MostarValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km722
Coast distance44 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 39 points.39
MostarValletta
Score1958
Restaurants within 2 km of centre117416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km935
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
MostarValletta
Score3661
Museums within 10 km1346
Museums within 2 km of centre1229
Share of museums within 2 km %9263
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
MostarValletta
Score2247
Drinking venues within 4 km154522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre147250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9548
Nightclubs within 4 km827
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 37 points.37
MostarValletta
Score946
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %996
Park area within 2 km7 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 31 points.31
MostarValletta
Score1546
Tourist attractions within 2 km1032
Park area within 2 km7 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
MostarValletta
Score3661
Notable places within 2 km31133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 19 points.19
MostarValletta
Score8869
Price level global37.462.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 18 points.18
MostarValletta
Score6179
Monthly daytime high9.3 °C to 33.4 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Mostar
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
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
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. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMostarValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€172-187
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 0 m
€338-389
2 stops
SJJ · 68 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 95 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMostarValletta
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation60 m56 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMostarValletta
City population105,4486,444
People per km²908,055
Museums within 10 km315
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre1855
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). 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. 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. 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.