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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
Naples Pier over turquoise water, Naples, Florida
Naples, FloridaNaples Pier over turquoise water

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Naples, Florida by William “Patrick” Ma…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Naples, Florida?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Naples, Florida for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples, Florida’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, Naples, Florida 87: Naples, Florida leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Naples, Florida 46: Naples, Florida leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Naples, Florida 27: Muscat leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Naples, Florida 20: Naples, Florida leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Naples, Florida 66: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Naples, Florida 43: Muscat leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Naples, Florida 64: Naples, Florida leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Naples, Florida 22: Naples, Florida leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Naples, Florida 48: Naples, Florida leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Naples, Florida 17: Muscat leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat and Naples, Florida are level on 40.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Naples, Florida 45: Muscat leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Naples, Florida.

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 prices with your weighting.

Naples, Florida
44match

Wins on beaches 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

Naples, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MuscatNaples, Florida

Where the figures come from

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

Naples, Florida 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). Naples, Florida: 2002-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Naples / East Naples (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatNaples, Florida
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 m-2 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)43 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatNaples, Florida
City population1,421,40919,115
People per km²406450
Museums within 10 km104
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months10 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.