VacationSelector

Naples or Valletta?

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

Your match

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

NaplesValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
NaplesValletta
Score7677
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km2922
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
NaplesValletta
Score4658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,244416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km735
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 17 points.17
NaplesValletta
Score7861
Museums within 10 km8446
Museums within 2 km of centre6829
Share of museums within 2 km %8163
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Naples leads by 19 points.19
NaplesValletta
Score6647
Drinking venues within 4 km1,389522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre964250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6948
Nightclubs within 4 km4027
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
NaplesValletta
Score3746
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %566
Park area within 2 km41 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 5 points.5
NaplesValletta
Score4146
Tourist attractions within 2 km1132
Park area within 2 km41 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 17 points.17
NaplesValletta
Score7861
Notable places within 2 km351133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
NaplesValletta
Score6869
Price level global64.962.8
Daily budget€155€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 6 points.6
NaplesValletta
Score7379
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 31.4 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 159 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months36
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
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
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. Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNaplesValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 5 m
€36-65
NAP · 7 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 7 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

MeasureNaplesValletta
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
Elevation17 m56 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaplesValletta
City population913,4626,444
People per km²7,6768,055
Museums within 10 km6515
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre3155
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.