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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Muscat or Rovinj?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’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, Rovinj 70: Muscat leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Rovinj 38: Muscat leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Rovinj 25: Rovinj leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Rovinj 60: Muscat leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Muscat and Rovinj are level on 52.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Rovinj 28: Muscat leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Rovinj 36: Muscat leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Rovinj 15: Muscat leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Rovinj 42: Muscat leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Rovinj.

Your match

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

Muscat
Best match
48match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

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

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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.

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj 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). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatRovinj
Official languageArabicCroatian
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzCF230 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 destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatRovinj
City population1,421,40912,968
People per km²406-
Museums within 10 km101
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. 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.