VacationSelector

Toronto or Valletta?

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

Your match

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
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.

TorontoValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 34 points.34
TorontoValletta
Score4377
Swim season months16
Beaches 10 km5822
Coast distance533 km0 km
Water distance5 km0 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 24 points.24
TorontoValletta
Score8258
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,133416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3935
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 18 points.18
TorontoValletta
Score4361
Museums within 10 km3546
Museums within 2 km of centre2529
Share of museums within 2 km %7163
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 22 points.22
TorontoValletta
Score6947
Drinking venues within 4 km1,500522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre966250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6448
Nightclubs within 4 km10327
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 20 points.20
TorontoValletta
Score2646
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %1006
Park area within 2 km68 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
TorontoValletta
Score5746
Tourist attractions within 2 km2332
Park area within 2 km68 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Toronto and Valletta are level on 61.
TorontoValletta
Score6161
Notable places within 2 km128133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
TorontoValletta
Score5469
Price level global8462.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 24 points.24
TorontoValletta
Score5579
Monthly daytime high-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Toronto
No sunshine record
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. Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTorontoValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
7 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MunichMUC
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
3 h 40 m
€93-146
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureTorontoValletta
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)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
Elevation76 m56 m
Main airportToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTorontoValletta
City population2,794,3566,444
People per km²4,4348,055
Museums within 10 km3215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre10255
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month6 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.