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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Marmaris 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 Marmaris for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Muscat for

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

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. Marmaris 80, Muscat 72: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Muscat 44: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Muscat 14: Marmaris leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Muscat 70: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Muscat 62: Marmaris leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Muscat 52: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Muscat 20: Marmaris leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Muscat 42: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Muscat 45: Marmaris leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Muscat 40: Muscat leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Muscat.

Your match

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

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on nightlife and getting around 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.

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre). Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisMuscat
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Rial Omani (OMR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+4
Emergency number112968
Elevation7 m69 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisMuscat
City population97,8181,421,409
People per km²111406
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.