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The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Muscat or Yokohama?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Muscat leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Muscat 44, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Muscat and Yokohama are level on 55.
Nightlife. Muscat 14, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Muscat 70, Yokohama 66: Muscat leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Muscat 62, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Muscat 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Muscat 20, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 67 points.
Shopping & style. Muscat 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Muscat 45, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Muscat 40, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Muscat 55, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Muscat and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Muscat
48match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMuscatYokohama
Official languageArabicJapanese
CurrencyRial Omani (OMR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCG240 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+9
Emergency number968Police 110, fire 119
Elevation69 m24 m
Main airportMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMuscatYokohama
City population1,421,4093,757,630
People per km²4068,585
Museums within 10 km1038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.