VacationSelector

New Orleans or Valletta?

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

Your match

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

New OrleansValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 38 points.38
New OrleansValletta
Score3977
Swim season months76
Beaches 10 km322
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance17 km0 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 3 points.3
New OrleansValletta
Score6158
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2535
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 16 points.16
New OrleansValletta
Score4561
Museums within 10 km4246
Museums within 2 km of centre3029
Share of museums within 2 km %7163
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 7 points.7
New OrleansValletta
Score5447
Drinking venues within 4 km704522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre495250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7048
Nightclubs within 4 km4127
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 21 points.21
New OrleansValletta
Score2546
Protected land share 50 km %4—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %896
Park area within 2 km43 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans and Valletta are level on 46.
New OrleansValletta
Score4646
Tourist attractions within 2 km2232
Park area within 2 km43 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 21 points.21
New OrleansValletta
Score4061
Notable places within 2 km40133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
New OrleansValletta
Score4369
Price level global10062.8
Daily budget—€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 11 points.11
New OrleansValletta
Score6879
Monthly daytime high17.1 °C to 33 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall94 mm to 194 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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
New Orleans
No sunshine record
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. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew OrleansValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 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

MeasureNew OrleansValletta
Official language–English, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation-2 m56 m
Main airportLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew OrleansValletta
City population383,9976,444
People per km²4238,055
Museums within 10 km1615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3955
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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). 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. 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.