Seasons

ℹ️ Short answer: The best time to visit Malta is late May to mid-June or mid-September to mid-October — warm enough to swim (24–26°C sea), warm enough to walk Mdina without melting (24–28°C air), and quiet enough that Comino’s Blue Lagoon still looks like the brochure. July and August are hot (30–34°C), crowded, and the Blue Lagoon at midday is unrecognisable. November to March is mild (15–18°C daytime), bargain-priced, often sunny, but the sea is too cold to swim and boat tours run reduced schedules. April and early May are spring-cool with patchy rain. We’d book May or September every time. Malta is a year-round destination in the strict sense — restaurants stay open, planes still land, Valletta still looks like Valletta in February. But the experience changes more than people expect from one month to the next. The Blue Lagoon in October is empty water and limestone; in August it’s a floating queue. The Tallinja bus to Mdina is a calm 30 minutes in March and a sweaty hour in July. And the price of a hotel in Sliema swings by 60% across the calendar.