VacationSelector

Pisa or Valletta?

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

Your match

Pisa
45
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

PisaValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 56 points.56
PisaValletta
Score2177
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance10 km0 km
Water distance10 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 24 points.24
PisaValletta
Score3458
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km935
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 6 points.6
PisaValletta
Score5561
Museums within 10 km2746
Museums within 2 km of centre2229
Share of museums within 2 km %8163
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 19 points.19
PisaValletta
Score2847
Drinking venues within 4 km232522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8848
Nightclubs within 4 km327
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
PisaValletta
Score3946
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %656
Park area within 2 km40 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
PisaValletta
Score4746
Tourist attractions within 2 km2032
Park area within 2 km40 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 14 points.14
PisaValletta
Score4761
Notable places within 2 km58133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
PisaValletta
Score6869
Price level global64.962.8
Daily budget€155€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
PisaValletta
Score7079
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months26
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPisaValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasurePisaValletta
Official languageItalianEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation4 m56 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaValletta
City population88,7376,444
People per km²4798,055
Museums within 10 km2715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2955
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.