VacationSelector

Tampa or Valletta?

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

Your match

Tampa
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

TampaValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 2 points.2
TampaValletta
Score7577
Swim season months86
Beaches 10 km1022
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 4 points.4
TampaValletta
Score5458
Restaurants within 2 km of centre359416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 34 points.34
TampaValletta
Score2761
Museums within 10 km1346
Museums within 2 km of centre1029
Share of museums within 2 km %7763
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
TampaValletta
Score3947
Drinking venues within 4 km324522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7048
Nightclubs within 4 km2627
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 16 points.16
TampaValletta
Score3046
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %726
Park area within 2 km39 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 16 points.16
TampaValletta
Score3046
Tourist attractions within 2 km332
Park area within 2 km39 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 40 points.40
TampaValletta
Score2161
Notable places within 2 km13133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
TampaValletta
Score4369
Price level global10062.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 4 points.4
TampaValletta
Score7579
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months16
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7
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. Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
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

MeasureTampaValletta
Official languageEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation30 m56 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaValletta
City population384,9596,444
People per km²8488,055
Museums within 10 km615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4755
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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.