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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Salt Lake City?

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
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Muscat leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Salt Lake City 40: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Salt Lake City 42: Muscat leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Salt Lake City 30: Salt Lake City leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Salt Lake City 34: Muscat leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Salt Lake City 36: Muscat leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Salt Lake City 40: Muscat leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Salt Lake City 38: Muscat leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Salt Lake City.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatSalt Lake City
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number968911
Elevation69 m1,288 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatSalt Lake City
City population1,421,409199,723
People per km²406690
Museums within 10 km1012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.