Valletta Guide for Digital Nomads

Weather in Valletta by month

The warmest month is July, at about 91°F (33°C) in the afternoon, and the coolest is January, at about 61°F (16°C).

The most rain falls in November.

From NOAA's monthly station summaries for Luqa, Mt (6.1 km away), averaged over 2011 to 2025.

Internet in Valletta

In M-Lab's open speed tests within 25 km of Valletta, half came in above 92 Mbps download and 28 Mbps upload, and the fastest quarter of lines above 254 Mbps.

That's 40,394 download tests from September 2025 to September 2026.

The typical figure counts every line, cheap and mobile ones too; a fiber line in a good apartment or coworking space is closer to the fastest quarter.

Test yours when you get there with my internet speed test.

Cost of living in Valletta

One person spends about $1,915 a month in Valletta, with a furnished place to stay:

The rent is estimated from Malta's housing prices, as Inside Airbnb doesn't cover Valletta.

The rest is what a one-person US household spends (the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2024 survey), at Malta's prices for each (the World Bank's 2021 price comparison).

Coworking, insurance and flights come on top.

Air quality in Valletta

The air in Valletta carries about 12 µg/m³ of fine particles (PM2.5) over a year, 2.5 times the WHO's guideline of 5 µg/m³.

The cleanest month is December, at about 10 µg/m³, and the haziest is March.

From the 3 government monitors nearest Valletta, all within 5.6 km, through OpenAQ's open air quality data, each month's average since 2023: Msida Station (EEA, ODC-BY, 2 km); MT00005 (EEA Malta, ODC-BY, 2.2 km); Zejtun Station (EEA, ODC-BY, 5.6 km).

Is Valletta safe?

The US State Department rates Malta Level 1 ("Exercise normal precautions", updated 2026-07-09), the same level it gives Austria, Portugal, Japan and Australia.

Level 1 is normal travel.

Some advisories raise the level for parts of a country, so read the full advisory before you book.

Work and stay in Valletta

Where to work and live with other remote workers, from each finder:

See them all on a map, with hours, photos and directions, in the coworking space finder and free Wi-Fi spots.

Visas, taxes and residency in Malta

Before you plan a long stay, check what your passport allows and what staying does to your taxes:

• Can you stay? – see where your passport goes without a visa on the visa-free countries map, and whether Malta has a visa for remote workers in the digital nomad visa finder
• The Schengen area – Malta is in it, so days here count toward your 90 in any 180; count them with the Schengen calculator
• Tax – compare Malta's income tax with other countries in tax rates by country
• Tax breaks for new residents – Malta has a regime for people who move there; see it in tax breaks for new residents
• Foreign income – Malta taxes foreign income only when you bring it into the country; see the rule and its exceptions on the territorial tax map

Each tool reads the official rules, so the answer is for your own passport and income.

Money in Valletta

A card with no foreign fee and an account that holds several currencies make a stay much cheaper:

• Accounts – the best bank accounts for digital nomads, by where you live
• Cards – what a card costs you abroad in the card fees abroad calculator
• Sending money – the cheapest way to move money there in the money transfer comparison

The finders show only accounts and cards you can open from where you live.

Time zone

Valletta runs on Malta time (Europe/Malta).

See how many working hours you'd share with your clients or team in the time zone overlap calculator.