VacationSelector

Stockholm 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

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

StockholmValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
StockholmValletta
Score6077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km7322
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 18 points.18
StockholmValletta
Score7658
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,558416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3635
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 8 points.8
StockholmValletta
Score6961
Museums within 10 km7446
Museums within 2 km of centre4729
Share of museums within 2 km %6463
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 17 points.17
StockholmValletta
Score6447
Drinking venues within 4 km1,090522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre689250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6348
Nightclubs within 4 km10627
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 5 points.5
StockholmValletta
Score4146
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %776
Park area within 2 km104 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 11 points.11
StockholmValletta
Score5746
Tourist attractions within 2 km2332
Park area within 2 km104 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 18 points.18
StockholmValletta
Score7961
Notable places within 2 km357133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
StockholmValletta
Score5769
Price level global80.362.8
Daily budget€169€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
StockholmValletta
Score5379
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months56
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
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. Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 5 m
€99-123
ARN · 36 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
€71-90
ARN · 36 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureStockholmValletta
Official languageSwedishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)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
Elevation22 m56 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmValletta
City population984,7486,444
People per km²5,2608,055
Museums within 10 km26615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre8155
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.