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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Muscat or Singapore?

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

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Singapore for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Singapore’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, Singapore 40: Muscat leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Singapore 62: Singapore leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Singapore 45: Muscat leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Singapore 25: Muscat leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 72 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Singapore 25: Muscat leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Singapore 40: Muscat leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Singapore.

Your match

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

Muscat
48match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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

Singapore in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatSingapore
Official languageArabicEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+8
Emergency number968Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation69 m21 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatSingapore
City population1,421,4095,866,139
People per km²4068,158
Museums within 10 km1040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.