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The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline
The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk

Photos: Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License; Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Macau or Ocean City, Maryland?

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 Macau for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Ocean City, Maryland for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’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. Macau 24, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Macau 77, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Macau leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Macau 62, Ocean City, Maryland 14: Macau leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Macau 40, Ocean City, Maryland 45: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Macau 5, Ocean City, Maryland 50: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Macau 52, Ocean City, Maryland 42: Macau leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Macau 48, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Macau 60, Ocean City, Maryland 34: Macau leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Macau 58, Ocean City, Maryland 24: Macau leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Macau 44, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Macau leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Macau 36, Ocean City, Maryland 18: Macau leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Macau 40, Ocean City, Maryland 22: Macau leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Ocean City, Maryland.

Your match

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

Macau
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MacauOcean City, Maryland

Where the figures come from

Ocean City, Maryland 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMacauOcean City, Maryland
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese-
CurrencyPataca (MOP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation22 m2 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauOcean City, Maryland
City population682,1006,844
People per km²5,91673
Museums within 10 km280
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months3 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.