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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Oaxaca or Valletta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Oaxaca for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’s own page.

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Oaxaca 5, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Valletta 55: Oaxaca leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Valletta 56: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Valletta 38: Oaxaca leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Valletta 50: Oaxaca leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, Valletta 32: Oaxaca leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Valletta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

Valletta
55match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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OaxacaValletta

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaValletta
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,555 m56 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaValletta
City population258,9135,197
People per km²3,0286,496
Museums within 10 km1016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.