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The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Krabi or Muscat?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Krabi for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’s own page.

Choose Muscat for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Muscat’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Krabi 87, Muscat 72: Krabi leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Muscat 44: Krabi leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Muscat 14: Krabi leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Muscat 70: Krabi leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Muscat 62: Muscat leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Muscat 52: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Muscat 20: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Muscat 42: Muscat leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Muscat 45: Krabi leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Muscat 40: Muscat leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Muscat 55: Krabi leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Muscat.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Krabi
49match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Muscat
48match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Muscat in July

33 °Cdaytime high
30 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
31 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Muscat's sunshine is measured 32 km from the centre, at Seeb, International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiMuscat
Official languageThaiArabic
CurrencyBaht (THB)Rial Omani (OMR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+4
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199968
Elevation16 m69 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiMuscat
City population30,4991,421,409
People per km²-406
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.