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Valletta from the water, Valletta
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Photos: Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • 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. Palm Springs 7, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Valletta 56: Palm Springs leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Valletta 38: Palm Springs leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Valletta 32: Palm Springs leads by 48 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Valletta.

Your match

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

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsValletta
Official language-English, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation146 m56 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsValletta
City population44,5755,197
People per km²1816,496
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.