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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’s own page.

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Salt Lake City 12, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Valletta 56: Salt Lake City leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Valletta 58: Salt Lake City leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Valletta 44: Salt Lake City leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Valletta 32: Salt Lake City leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Valletta.

Your match

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

Salt Lake City
44match

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

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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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Salt Lake CityValletta

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CityValletta
Official language-English, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,288 m56 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CityValletta
City population199,7235,197
People per km²6906,496
Museums within 10 km1216
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.