VacationSelector

Valletta or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

VallettaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
VallettaVancouver
Score7760
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km22109
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 16 points.16
VallettaVancouver
Score5874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4161,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3535
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 27 points.27
VallettaVancouver
Score6134
Museums within 10 km4627
Museums within 2 km of centre2915
Share of museums within 2 km %6356
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 10 points.10
VallettaVancouver
Score4757
Drinking venues within 4 km522848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre250602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4871
Nightclubs within 4 km2744
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 31 points.31
VallettaVancouver
Score4677
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %660
Park area within 2 km24 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 7 points.7
VallettaVancouver
Score4653
Tourist attractions within 2 km3215
Park area within 2 km24 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 13 points.13
VallettaVancouver
Score6148
Notable places within 2 km13363
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
VallettaVancouver
Score6954
Price level global62.884
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
VallettaVancouver
Score7953
Monthly daytime high15.7 °C to 31.9 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 90 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months60
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
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVallettaVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
3 h 40 m
€93-146
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureVallettaVancouver
Official languageEnglish, MalteseFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation56 m2 m
Main airportMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureVallettaVancouver
City population6,444662,248
People per km²8,0555,759
Museums within 10 km1526
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5585
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.