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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Muscat or Phnom Penh?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Muscat leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Phnom Penh 28: Muscat leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Phnom Penh 34: Muscat leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Phnom Penh 32: Muscat leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Phnom Penh 35: Phnom Penh leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Phnom Penh 32: Muscat leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Phnom Penh 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 Phnom Penh.

Your match

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

Muscat
Best match
48match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on nightlife and prices 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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatPhnom Penh
Official languageArabicKhmer
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+7
Emergency number968Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation69 m11 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-21 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatPhnom Penh
City population1,421,4092,129,371
People per km²4063,138
Museums within 10 km103
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.