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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Turin?

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

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

Choose Turin for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Muscat leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Turin 81: Turin leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Turin 78: Turin leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Turin 50: Turin leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Turin 80: Turin leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Turin 84: Turin leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Turin 57: Turin leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Turin 68: Turin leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Turin 58: Turin leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Turin 58: Turin leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Turin 65: Turin leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Turin 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 Turin.

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.

Turin
Best match
61match

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

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 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.

Turin 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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatTurin
Official languageArabicItalian
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number968112
Elevation69 m239 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatTurin
City population1,421,409841,600
People per km²4066,474
Museums within 10 km1072
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.