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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Muscat or Toronto?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Toronto for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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, Toronto 34: Muscat leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Toronto 50: Muscat leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Toronto 52: Muscat leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Toronto 50: Muscat leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Toronto 34: Muscat leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Toronto 33: Muscat leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Toronto.

Your match

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

Muscat
48match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and getting around 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

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatToronto
Official languageArabicFrench, English
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number968911
Elevation69 m76 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatToronto
City population1,421,4092,794,356
People per km²4064,434
Museums within 10 km1032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months1 month

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. 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.