VacationSelector

Porto or Valletta?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Porto
62
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

PortoValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
PortoValletta
Score6077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km5222
Coast distance4 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 10 points.10
PortoValletta
Score6858
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,172416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2735
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 10 points.10
PortoValletta
Score7161
Museums within 10 km10146
Museums within 2 km of centre5729
Share of museums within 2 km %5663
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Porto leads by 11 points.11
PortoValletta
Score5847
Drinking venues within 4 km900522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6348
Nightclubs within 4 km3827
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
PortoValletta
Score3346
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %616
Park area within 2 km30 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 19 points.19
PortoValletta
Score6546
Tourist attractions within 2 km12232
Park area within 2 km30 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
PortoValletta
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km85133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 5 points.5
PortoValletta
Score7469
Price level global55.962.8
Daily budget€109€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
PortoValletta
Score7179
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months36
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 45 m
€106-125
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasurePortoValletta
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m56 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoValletta
City population231,8006,444
People per km²5,5998,055
Museums within 10 km4215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre7055
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). 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.