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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Muscat or Nice?

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

  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Nice for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Nice 66: Nice leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Nice 64: Nice leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Nice 47: Nice leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Nice 80: Nice leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Nice 87: Nice leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Nice 57: Nice leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Nice 74: Nice leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Nice 55: Nice leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Nice 35: Muscat leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Nice 45: Nice leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Nice 40: Muscat leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Nice.

Your match

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

Muscat
48match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatNice
Official languageArabicFrench
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number968112
Elevation69 m0 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatNice
City population1,421,409357,737
People per km²4064,975
Museums within 10 km1017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.