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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Oaxaca?

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
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Muscat leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Oaxaca 62: Muscat leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Oaxaca 65: Oaxaca leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Oaxaca 40: Muscat leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Oaxaca 38: Muscat leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Oaxaca 50: Muscat leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Muscat
48match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on food and drink and getting around 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatOaxaca
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-6
Emergency number968911
Elevation69 m1,555 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatOaxaca
City population1,421,409258,913
People per km²4063,028
Museums within 10 km1010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.