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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Sedona 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 Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’s own page.

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • getting around

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. Sedona 16, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Valletta 56: Sedona leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Valletta 32: Sedona leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and Valletta.

Your match

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

Sedona
36match

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

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaValletta
Official language-English, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,319 m56 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaValletta
City population9,6845,197
People per km²1956,496
Museums within 10 km016
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.