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Can you afford it?

Tell us what lands in your account each month. We will set it against the four costs our city guides can actually source, rent, a desk, weekday lunches and getting around, and show you what is left for everything else.

Valletta, a month

£822 to £1,500 for the basics.

Add your take-home pay above to see what is left.

Not every cost has a checked figure for Valletta, so the real total is higher than this. The missing ones are marked below.

RentAsking rent, one-bed, Gzira up to Valletta and Sliema, from an aggregator, April 2026. Not specific to furnished one-beds. EUR 800 to 1,500
£674 to £1,260
A deskNo monthly coworking price on an operator's own site: Regus and Spaces quote EUR 9 a day only on 24-month contracts
Not included
Weekday lunchesA ftira, the Maltese sourdough sandwich, EUR 4 to 8 each, 22 working days
£74 to £148
Getting aroundBus at EUR 2.00 a ride in winter, EUR 2.50 in summer, two rides each working day. A EUR 25 personalised tallinja card makes most routes free. EUR 88 to 110
£74 to £93

Malta's Nomad Residence Permit asks for about £2,950 a month in income. Check your own case

The Valletta guideCompare every city

What is counted. Four costs, and only four, because they are the ones every guide can source: rent, a desk, a lunch on each of 22 working days, and getting around. Food shopping, bills, a phone, insurance, tax and evenings out are not in it, which is why the answer is what is left for everything else, not what is left to save.

Where the figures come from. Each city's guide, checked against official statistics, the operators' own price pages and dated listings. Each line says what it is. Where a guide only publishes rent per square metre, the line says what size flat it assumes. Last copied from the guides on 3 October 2026.

The exchange rates. The same daily feed as the visa checker, from ExchangeRate-API, last updated 20 October 2026. Pesos are converted at the official rate.