VacationSelector

Valletta or West Palm Beach?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

VallettaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.11
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score7788
Swim season months612
Beaches 10 km2210
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 21 points.21
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score5837
Restaurants within 2 km of centre416262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3514
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 44 points.44
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score6117
Museums within 10 km465
Museums within 2 km of centre293
Share of museums within 2 km %6360
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 27 points.27
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score4720
Drinking venues within 4 km522132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre25090
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4868
Nightclubs within 4 km2710
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 23 points.23
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score4669
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %645
Park area within 2 km24 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 25 points.25
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score4621
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km24 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 49 points.49
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score6112
Notable places within 2 km1338
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score6943
Price level global62.8100
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 4 points.4
VallettaWest Palm Beach
Score7975
Monthly daytime high15.7 °C to 31.9 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 90 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVallettaWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureVallettaWest Palm Beach
Official languageEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation56 m6 m
Main airportMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureVallettaWest Palm Beach
City population6,444117,415
People per km²8,055786
Museums within 10 km154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5518
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months12 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.