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Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License; Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

La Spezia 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 Spezia for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Muscat for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

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 Spezia 60, Muscat 72: Muscat leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. La Spezia 58, Muscat 44: La Spezia leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. La Spezia 40, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. La Spezia 28, Muscat 14: La Spezia leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Spezia 79, Muscat 70: La Spezia leads by 9 points.
Day trips. La Spezia 87, Muscat 62: La Spezia leads by 25 points.
Good for families. La Spezia 48, Muscat 52: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Getting around. La Spezia 70, Muscat 20: La Spezia leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. La Spezia 35, Muscat 42: Muscat leads by 7 points.
Affordability. La Spezia 50, Muscat 45: La Spezia leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Spezia 28, Muscat 40: Muscat leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Spezia 32, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Spezia and Muscat.

Your match

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

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Muscat
48match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

La Spezia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
20 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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 Spezia's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

La Spezia 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 Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre). Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa SpeziaMuscat
Official languageItalianArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rial Omani (OMR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112968
Elevation3 m69 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaMuscat
City population92,1191,421,409
People per km²1,792406
Museums within 10 km1210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.