VacationSelector

San Jose or Valletta?

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

Your match

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

San JoseValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 69 points.69
San JoseValletta
Score877
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
San JoseValletta
Score4158
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1635
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 35 points.35
San JoseValletta
Score2661
Museums within 10 km2046
Museums within 2 km of centre929
Share of museums within 2 km %4563
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 16 points.16
San JoseValletta
Score3147
Drinking venues within 4 km231522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3848
Nightclubs within 4 km1627
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 24 points.24
San JoseValletta
Score7046
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %916
Park area within 2 km101 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
San JoseValletta
Score3346
Tourist attractions within 2 km232
Park area within 2 km101 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 47 points.47
San JoseValletta
Score1461
Notable places within 2 km9133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
San JoseValletta
Score4369
Price level global10062.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 6 points.6
San JoseValletta
Score8579
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months86
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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
San Jose
No sunshine record
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. San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 55 m
€78-100
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

MeasureSan JoseValletta
Official languageEnglish, 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
Elevation25 m56 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseValletta
City population1,013,2406,444
People per km²2,1678,055
Museums within 10 km1915
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3055
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). 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. 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. 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.