VacationSelector

Valletta or Vienna?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Valletta
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

VallettaVienna
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
VallettaVienna
Score770
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2222
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 19 points.19
VallettaVienna
Score5877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4161,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3537
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 20 points.20
VallettaVienna
Score6181
Museums within 10 km46192
Museums within 2 km of centre29110
Share of museums within 2 km %6357
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 27 points.27
VallettaVienna
Score4774
Drinking venues within 4 km5221,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2501,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4856
Nightclubs within 4 km27108
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 14 points.14
VallettaVienna
Score4632
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 23 points.23
VallettaVienna
Score4669
Tourist attractions within 2 km3246
Park area within 2 km24 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
VallettaVienna
Score6175
Notable places within 2 km133287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 10 points.10
VallettaVienna
Score6959
Price level global62.876.9
Daily budget€129€160
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 18 points.18
VallettaVienna
Score7961
Monthly daytime high15.7 °C to 31.9 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 90 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months61
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVallettaVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€63-153
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
€206-246
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 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

MeasureVallettaVienna
Official languageEnglish, MalteseGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation56 m151 m
Main airportMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureVallettaVienna
City population6,4442,028,289
People per km²8,0554,890
Museums within 10 km15152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre55113
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.