VacationSelector

Valletta or Yokohama?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

VallettaYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 28 points.28
VallettaYokohama
Score7749
Swim season months65
Beaches 10 km222
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 20 points.20
VallettaYokohama
Score5878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4163,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3524
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
VallettaYokohama
Score6153
Museums within 10 km4657
Museums within 2 km of centre2931
Share of museums within 2 km %6354
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 27 points.27
VallettaYokohama
Score4774
Drinking venues within 4 km5222,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2501,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4864
Nightclubs within 4 km2733
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 12 points.12
VallettaYokohama
Score4658
Protected land share 50 km %——
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %667
Park area within 2 km24 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 12 points.12
VallettaYokohama
Score4658
Tourist attractions within 2 km3216
Park area within 2 km24 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 17 points.17
VallettaYokohama
Score6144
Notable places within 2 km13349
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 1 points.1
VallettaYokohama
Score6970
Price level global62.862.4
Daily budget€129—
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 16 points.16
VallettaYokohama
Score7963
Monthly daytime high15.7 °C to 31.9 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 90 mm46 mm to 219 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
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVallettaYokohama
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 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

MeasureVallettaYokohama
Official languageEnglish, MalteseJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation56 m24 m
Main airportMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureVallettaYokohama
City population6,4443,757,630
People per km²8,0558,585
Museums within 10 km1538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5566
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months5 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.