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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Ubud?

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
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Ubud for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Muscat leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Ubud 15: Ubud leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Ubud 48: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Ubud 10: Muscat leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Ubud.

Your match

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

Muscat
48match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

Wins on wellness and prices 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

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MuscatUbud

Where the figures come from

Muscat's sunshine is measured 32 km from the centre, at Seeb, International Airport.

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatUbud
Official languageArabicIndonesian
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+8
Emergency number968112
Elevation69 m210 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatUbud
City population1,421,409-
People per km²406-
Museums within 10 km1014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. 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.