VacationSelector

Prague 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

Prague
62
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

PragueValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
PragueValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km722
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 17 points.17
PragueValletta
Score7558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 11 points.11
PragueValletta
Score7261
Museums within 10 km13846
Museums within 2 km of centre10029
Share of museums within 2 km %7263
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Prague leads by 30 points.30
PragueValletta
Score7747
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6548
Nightclubs within 4 km12327
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
PragueValletta
Score4546
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km183 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 29 points.29
PragueValletta
Score7546
Tourist attractions within 2 km5432
Park area within 2 km183 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 15 points.15
PragueValletta
Score7661
Notable places within 2 km310133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 6 points.6
PragueValletta
Score7569
Price level global55.262.8
Daily budget€107€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 18 points.18
PragueValletta
Score6179
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months76
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
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. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePragueValletta
Official languageCzechEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation235 m56 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueValletta
City population1,397,8806,444
People per km²2,8178,055
Museums within 10 km8815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8955
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.