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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Muscat or Nashville?

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

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Muscat leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Nashville 50: Muscat leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Nashville 46: Muscat leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Nashville 52: Muscat leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Nashville 30: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat and Nashville are level on 42.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Nashville 30: Muscat leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Nashville 20: Muscat leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Nashville.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Muscat
48match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on nightlife 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.

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatNashville
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number968911
Elevation69 m182 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatNashville
City population1,421,409689,447
People per km²406506
Museums within 10 km1012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.