VacationSelector

Split or Valletta?

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

Your match

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

SplitValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 4 points.4
SplitValletta
Score7377
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km8722
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 20 points.20
SplitValletta
Score3858
Restaurants within 2 km of centre268416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
SplitValletta
Score5261
Museums within 10 km1846
Museums within 2 km of centre1629
Share of museums within 2 km %8963
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 6 points.6
SplitValletta
Score4147
Drinking venues within 4 km379522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre263250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6948
Nightclubs within 4 km2327
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
SplitValletta
Score3846
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %626
Park area within 2 km30 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 20 points.20
SplitValletta
Score2646
Tourist attractions within 2 km932
Park area within 2 km30 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 19 points.19
SplitValletta
Score4261
Notable places within 2 km43133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 11 points.11
SplitValletta
Score8069
Price level global48.562.8
Daily budget€138€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 10 points.10
SplitValletta
Score6979
Monthly daytime high10.7 °C to 31 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall25 mm to 117 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months26
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Split
9
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
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. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSplitValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
ZagrebZAG
55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€93-125
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 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

MeasureSplitValletta
Official languageCroatianEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m56 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitValletta
City population160,5776,444
People per km²8,055
Museums within 10 km1115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre3155
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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.