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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Muscat for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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. La Romana 84, Muscat 72: La Romana leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Muscat 44: Muscat leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Muscat 14: La Romana leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Muscat 70: Muscat leads by 8 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Muscat 62: Muscat leads by 10 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Muscat 52: La Romana leads by 4 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Muscat 20: La Romana leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Muscat 42: Muscat leads by 14 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Muscat 45: La Romana leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Muscat 40: Muscat leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Muscat.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Muscat
Best match
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.

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaMuscat
Official languageSpanishArabic
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Rial Omani (OMR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+4
Emergency number911968
Elevation10 m69 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaMuscat
City population139,2381,421,409
People per km²512406
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.