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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Ocean City, Maryland?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Ocean City, Maryland for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’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, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Ocean City, Maryland 14: Muscat leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Ocean City, Maryland 45: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Ocean City, Maryland 50: Muscat leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Ocean City, Maryland 42: Muscat leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Ocean City, Maryland 34: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Ocean City, Maryland 24: Muscat leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Muscat leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Ocean City, Maryland 18: Muscat leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Ocean City, Maryland 22: Muscat leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Ocean City, Maryland.

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.

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

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

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MuscatOcean City, Maryland

Where the figures come from

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

Ocean City, Maryland 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). Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatOcean City, Maryland
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 m2 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatOcean City, Maryland
City population1,421,4096,844
People per km²40673
Museums within 10 km100
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.