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Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Telluride 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 Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • getting around

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

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Telluride 5, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Telluride 38, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Telluride 20, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Telluride 20, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Telluride 93, Valletta 56: Telluride leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Telluride 30, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Telluride 45, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Telluride 66, Valletta 62: Telluride leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Telluride 25, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Telluride 7, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Telluride 35, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Telluride 45, Valletta 32: Telluride leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Telluride and Valletta.

Your match

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

Telluride
36match

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

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Telluride 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. Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTellurideValletta
Official language-English, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,667 m56 m
Main airportMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTellurideValletta
City population2,6075,197
People per km²1,3726,496
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.