VacationSelector

Valletta or Warsaw?

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, level with your weighting

Valletta
60
match

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

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on good for families 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.

VallettaWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
VallettaWarsaw
Score770
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2226
Coast distance0 km238 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 14 points.14
VallettaWarsaw
Score5872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4161,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 2 points.2
VallettaWarsaw
Score6163
Museums within 10 km46107
Museums within 2 km of centre2960
Share of museums within 2 km %6356
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 15 points.15
VallettaWarsaw
Score4762
Drinking venues within 4 km5221,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre250648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4864
Nightclubs within 4 km27104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 9 points.9
VallettaWarsaw
Score4655
Protected land share 50 km %—27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %6100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 24 points.24
VallettaWarsaw
Score4670
Tourist attractions within 2 km3242
Park area within 2 km24 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 15 points.15
VallettaWarsaw
Score6176
Notable places within 2 km133299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 10 points.10
VallettaWarsaw
Score6979
Price level global62.849
Daily budget€129€133
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 20 points.20
VallettaWarsaw
Score7959
Monthly daytime high15.7 °C to 31.9 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 90 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months66
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVallettaWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureVallettaWarsaw
Official languageEnglish, MaltesePolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation56 m118 m
Main airportMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureVallettaWarsaw
City population6,4441,862,402
People per km²8,0553,601
Museums within 10 km15117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5576
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. 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.