Seychelles and Malta, evidence side by side
This is a comparison of published business, climate and property measures — not a recommendation about where you should live.
| Measure | Seychelles | Malta |
|---|---|---|
| Typical property asking price | £436k | £381k |
| Listings now | 525 | 12,709 |
| Months averaging 20°C+ by day | 12/12 | 8/12 |
| Annual rainfall at selected station | 2,467 mm | 570 mm |
| Business entry — B-READY | 73.2 | 85.2 |
| Business location — B-READY | 52.6 | 46.3 |
| Utility services — B-READY | 63.9 | 72.3 |
| Labour — B-READY | 60.7 | 79.0 |
| Business taxation — B-READY | 59.5 | 42.7 |
| Dispute resolution — B-READY | 35.7 | 50.4 |
B-READY topics use a 0–100 scale. Higher is not automatically better for a particular person, and the World Bank does not present these scores as relocation advice.
Sources, licences and known gaps
| Feed used | What appears here | Provenance and licence |
|---|---|---|
| world-bank-b-ready-2025 | Six topic scores and three pillar scores for the eight assessed economies. | World Bank B-READY 2025 · CC BY 4.0 R2: datafeeds/world-bank/b-ready/2025-12-24/B-READY_ALL_DATA_2025.zip · imported 2026-08-24 |
| noaa-ghcn-daily | 1991–2020 monthly station normals derived from daily observations. | NOAA NCEI · United States federal open data R2: datafeeds/noaa-ghcn/20260812/superghcnd_full_20260812.csv.gz · imported 2026-08-13 |
The approved Environment Agency station, current-flood and catchment-classification imports cover England. They are not used for these island markets, and no England result is imputed to an island.
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