VacationSelector

Oslo or Valletta?

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

Your match

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

OsloValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
OsloValletta
Score6077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km16322
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
OsloValletta
Score6758
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3435
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
OsloValletta
Score4861
Museums within 10 km7046
Museums within 2 km of centre3729
Share of museums within 2 km %5363
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
OsloValletta
Score5347
Drinking venues within 4 km695522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8148
Nightclubs within 4 km4127
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
OsloValletta
Score6146
Protected land share 50 km %22—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %946
Park area within 2 km88 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
OsloValletta
Score4846
Tourist attractions within 2 km1332
Park area within 2 km88 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 8 points.8
OsloValletta
Score6961
Notable places within 2 km207133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
OsloValletta
Score5469
Price level global85.162.8
Daily budget€203€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 31 points.31
OsloValletta
Score4879
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
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. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureOsloValletta
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation23 m56 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloValletta
City population717,7106,444
People per km²–8,055
Museums within 10 km6015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7555
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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). 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. 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.