VacationSelector

Valletta or Zadar?

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 places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

VallettaZadar
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 4 points.4
VallettaZadar
Score7773
Swim season months64
Beaches 10 km2249
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 33 points.33
VallettaZadar
Score5825
Restaurants within 2 km of centre416143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3511
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 28 points.28
VallettaZadar
Score6133
Museums within 10 km468
Museums within 2 km of centre298
Share of museums within 2 km %63100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Valletta leads by 22 points.22
VallettaZadar
Score4725
Drinking venues within 4 km522194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre250139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4872
Nightclubs within 4 km274
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 9 points.9
VallettaZadar
Score4655
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %647
Park area within 2 km24 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 15 points.15
VallettaZadar
Score4631
Tourist attractions within 2 km329
Park area within 2 km24 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 30 points.30
VallettaZadar
Score6131
Notable places within 2 km13323
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 11 points.11
VallettaZadar
Score6980
Price level global62.848.5
Daily budget€129€138
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 10 points.10
VallettaZadar
Score7969
Monthly daytime high15.7 °C to 31.9 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 90 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months62
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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Zadar
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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVallettaZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
€165-259
MLA · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€45-192
ZAD · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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

MeasureVallettaZadar
Official languageEnglish, MalteseCroatian
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 m5 m
Main airportMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureVallettaZadar
City population6,44470,779
People per km²8,055
Museums within 10 km151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5517
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 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.