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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Steamboat Springs?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Muscat leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Steamboat Springs 30: Muscat leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Steamboat Springs 14: Muscat leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Steamboat Springs 20: Steamboat Springs leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Steamboat Springs 12: Muscat leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Steamboat Springs 22: Muscat leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Steamboat Springs 17: Muscat leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Steamboat Springs 28: Muscat leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Steamboat Springs.

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.

Steamboat Springs
35match

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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 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.

Steamboat Springs 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). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatSteamboat Springs
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 m2,052 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatSteamboat Springs
City population1,421,40913,224
People per km²406503
Museums within 10 km100
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.