VacationSelector

Tromso or Valletta?

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

Your match

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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.

TromsoValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
TromsoValletta
Score5277
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1422
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 34 points.34
TromsoValletta
Score2458
Restaurants within 2 km of centre85416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1635
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 38 points.38
TromsoValletta
Score2361
Museums within 10 km1046
Museums within 2 km of centre829
Share of museums within 2 km %8063
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 40 points.40
TromsoValletta
Score747
Drinking venues within 4 km67522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre61250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9148
Nightclubs within 4 km527
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 35 points.35
TromsoValletta
Score1146
Protected land share 50 km %9—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %656
Park area within 2 km7 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 32 points.32
TromsoValletta
Score1446
Tourist attractions within 2 km932
Park area within 2 km7 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 33 points.33
TromsoValletta
Score2861
Notable places within 2 km20133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
TromsoValletta
Score5469
Price level global85.162.8
Daily budget€203€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 46 points.46
TromsoValletta
Score3379
Monthly daytime high-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall56 mm to 128 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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F
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0
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. Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTromsoValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 10 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
3 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureTromsoValletta
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation20 m56 m
Main airportTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTromsoValletta
City population79,9436,444
People per km²328,055
Museums within 10 km815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre2355
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.