VacationSelector

Tokyo or Valletta?

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

Your match

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

TokyoValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 56 points.56
TokyoValletta
Score2177
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance5 km0 km
Water distance5 km0 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 32 points.32
TokyoValletta
Score9058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,936416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2535
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 5 points.5
TokyoValletta
Score6661
Museums within 10 km30246
Museums within 2 km of centre5229
Share of museums within 2 km %1763
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 48 points.48
TokyoValletta
Score9547
Drinking venues within 4 km6,895522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3,033250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4448
Nightclubs within 4 km5827
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 12 points.12
TokyoValletta
Score5846
Protected land share 50 km %——
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %856
Park area within 2 km85 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 25 points.25
TokyoValletta
Score7146
Tourist attractions within 2 km4032
Park area within 2 km85 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km91
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
TokyoValletta
Score6061
Notable places within 2 km121133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 1 points.1
TokyoValletta
Score7069
Price level global62.462.8
Daily budget—€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
TokyoValletta
Score6479
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 31.5 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall57 mm to 237 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months06
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6
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. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTokyoValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
ViennaVIE
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
5 h 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureTokyoValletta
Official languageJapaneseEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation6 m56 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTokyoValletta
City population14,264,7986,444
People per km²6,5018,055
Museums within 10 km19115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre12555
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). 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.