VacationSelector

Valletta or Zurich?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

VallettaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 77 points.77
VallettaZurich
Score770
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2223
Coast distance0 km632 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 9 points.9
VallettaZurich
Score5867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre416974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3530
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 5 points.5
VallettaZurich
Score6156
Museums within 10 km4676
Museums within 2 km of centre2937
Share of museums within 2 km %6349
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 7 points.7
VallettaZurich
Score4754
Drinking venues within 4 km522676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre250553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4882
Nightclubs within 4 km2774
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 9 points.9
VallettaZurich
Score4637
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %6100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Valletta leads by 10 points.10
VallettaZurich
Score4636
Tourist attractions within 2 km328
Park area within 2 km24 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 2 points.2
VallettaZurich
Score6159
Notable places within 2 km133119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valletta leads by 34 points.34
VallettaZurich
Score6935
Price level global62.8110.5
Daily budget€129€248
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 26 points.26
VallettaZurich
Score7953
Monthly daytime high15.7 °C to 31.9 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 90 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVallettaZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 15 m
€111-180
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 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

MeasureVallettaZurich
Official languageEnglish, MalteseFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation56 m408 m
Main airportMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureVallettaZurich
City population6,444452,421
People per km²8,0555,147
Museums within 10 km1563
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5578
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.