VacationSelector

New York or Valletta?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on value for money 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.

New YorkValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
New YorkValletta
Score6477
Swim season months36
Beaches 10 km1722
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 37 points.37
New YorkValletta
Score9558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3835
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
New YorkValletta
Score6061
Museums within 10 km11946
Museums within 2 km of centre3129
Share of museums within 2 km %2663
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. New York leads by 42 points.42
New YorkValletta
Score8947
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4848
Nightclubs within 4 km19227
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
New YorkValletta
Score3946
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %696
Park area within 2 km134 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 26 points.26
New YorkValletta
Score7246
Tourist attractions within 2 km3732
Park area within 2 km134 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. New York leads by 13 points.13
New YorkValletta
Score7461
Notable places within 2 km268133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
New YorkValletta
Score4369
Price level global10062.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 21 points.21
New YorkValletta
Score5879
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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
New York
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 York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
5 h 25 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 YorkValletta
Official languageEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m56 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkValletta
City population8,804,1906,444
People per km²7,2568,055
Museums within 10 km15715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre13255
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.