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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Muscat or Myrtle Beach?

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 Muscat for

  • culture and sights
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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. Muscat 72, Myrtle Beach 84: Myrtle Beach leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Myrtle Beach 38: Muscat leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Myrtle Beach 20: Muscat leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Myrtle Beach 42: Myrtle Beach leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Myrtle Beach 46: Muscat leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Myrtle Beach 50: Muscat leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Myrtle Beach 18: Muscat leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Myrtle Beach 38: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Myrtle Beach 52: Myrtle Beach leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Myrtle Beach 30: Muscat leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Myrtle Beach 28: Muscat leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Muscat
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness with your weighting.

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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

Myrtle Beach 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. Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre). Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatMyrtle Beach
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number968911
Elevation69 m8 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatMyrtle Beach
City population1,421,40935,682
People per km²406591
Museums within 10 km102
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.