Malta Travel Blog

December is the month Malta stops performing for its visitors and just gets on with being Malta. The cruise ships thin out, the queues at the headline sites disappear, and the temperature settles into the mid to high teens, which is the range the island is genuinely best explored in. That changes what is worth … Continued

Malta does Christmas without the cold. The lights go up along Valletta’s main streets in late November, village squares fill with cribs, and daytime temperatures usually sit in the mid to high teens, which means you can walk between most of it instead of dashing from one heated building to the next. This guide covers … Continued

Malta’s swimming season runs long. By late September the crowds at Golden Bay and Għadira have thinned out, the water is still warm, and the afternoons are still bright enough to spend outdoors. This is the stretch of the year when a rooftop pool in Malta starts to make more sense than a beach day, … Continued

Defected Malta 2026 returns from 1 to 4 October, the fifth year the UK house label has taken over the island for a long October weekend. Over 5,000 people fly in for it, spread across four very different venues: two of them genuinely walkable from Valletta, two of them requiring a taxi or bus. Here’s … Continued

Every September, while beach season is winding down, another one of Malta’s seasons is in full swing. Malta’s grape harvest season runs through the month, with vineyards across Malta and Gozo bringing in the crop that becomes the next year’s wine. It’s a quieter, more agricultural side of the island than the festas and fireworks, … Continued

Blubay Apartments in Gzira is the only property in the ST Hotels Malta portfolio that accepts pets, subject to prior approval. Every other hotel and apartment property in the group allows registered assistance animals only, which makes Blubay the default answer whenever the question is pet-friendly apartments in Gzira Malta. Combined with full kitchens and … Continued

Rockestra Malta 2026 returns on Saturday, 26 September, at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali, Attard. It is one of the more distinctive nights on the island’s autumn calendar: the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra reworking rock classics alongside a line-up of Maltese artists, with every euro raised going to the Malta Community … Continued