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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Yogyakarta?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Muscat leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat 55, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Yogyakarta 40: Muscat leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Yogyakarta 50: Muscat leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Muscat
48match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices 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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MuscatYogyakarta

Where the figures come from

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

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMuscatYogyakarta
Official languageArabicIndonesian
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+7
Emergency number968112
Elevation69 m113 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatYogyakarta
City population1,421,409422,732
People per km²40613,007
Museums within 10 km1038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.