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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
A chairlift and the runs on Whistler Mountain, Whistler
WhistlerA chairlift and the runs on Whistler Mountain

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Whistler by Ruth Hartnup, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Muscat or Whistler?

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
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Whistler for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Whistler’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, Whistler 30: Muscat leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Whistler 40: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Whistler 20: Muscat leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Whistler 42: Whistler leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Whistler 97: Whistler leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Whistler 30: Muscat leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Whistler 68: Whistler leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Whistler 68: Whistler leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Whistler 30: Muscat leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Whistler 12: Muscat leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Whistler 15: Muscat leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Whistler 60: Whistler leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Whistler.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Whistler
43match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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

Whistler in July

25 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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.

Whistler 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). Whistler: 1991-2020 normals, Whistler - Nesters (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatWhistler
Official languageArabicFrench, English
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number968911
Elevation69 m670 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)104 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatWhistler
City population1,421,40913,982
People per km²40658
Museums within 10 km101
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.