VacationSelector

Strasbourg or Valletta?

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

Your match

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

StrasbourgValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
StrasbourgValletta
Score077
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km922
Coast distance398 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 9 points.9
StrasbourgValletta
Score6758
Restaurants within 2 km of centre780416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3635
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 20 points.20
StrasbourgValletta
Score4161
Museums within 10 km2346
Museums within 2 km of centre1429
Share of museums within 2 km %6163
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 11 points.11
StrasbourgValletta
Score3647
Drinking venues within 4 km305522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre264250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8748
Nightclubs within 4 km1727
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
StrasbourgValletta
Score5446
Protected land share 50 km %37—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km71 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
StrasbourgValletta
Score3846
Tourist attractions within 2 km932
Park area within 2 km71 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
StrasbourgValletta
Score5861
Notable places within 2 km109133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 7 points.7
StrasbourgValletta
Score6269
Price level global73.762.8
Daily budget€160€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 16 points.16
StrasbourgValletta
Score6379
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 26.4 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 77 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months36
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStrasbourgValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
NiceNCE
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureStrasbourgValletta
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation132 m56 m
Main airportStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureStrasbourgValletta
City population293,7716,444
People per km²3,7528,055
Museums within 10 km2115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8755
Swim season, months above 21 °C–6 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.