MBD Travel Oman Guide
More than a list of sights: a practical guide to planning the order of your trip, choosing where to stay and adapting the plan to the season.
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COUNTRY GUIDE
Oman
The Oman hotels we work with; each hotel page prices rooms for your dates.
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Muscat reference, not all of Oman · Average low / high, °C
Bars show each month’s low-to-high temperature range. Select a month for departures.
Monthly averages of daily readings · 2021-2025
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Historical monthly low and high temperature averages, not a forecast. The bars share one temperature scale.
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CITY DIRECTORY
Cities of Oman
Choose where to stay
Compare location and property class. Open the hotel for current rooms and rates.
MBD Editorial · 2026Country file
Country fileMBD Travel Oman Guide
Know the country
Oman Travel Guide 2026: Places to Visit and Omani Culture
For Muscat, October to April is the practical season in Oman. In summer, the coast passes 40 degrees Celsius. Salalah, in the south, is different: from June to September light rain turns the valleys green and lowers the temperature. Locals call this season the khareef. The official language is Arabic, and English is widely used in tourism.
Places to visit
- Muscat: the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque and the Royal Opera House.
- Mutrah Souq: Muscat's traditional market on the harbour front, beside the corniche.
- Salalah: the region where frankincense trees grow, and the Al Baleed archaeological site is UNESCO-listed.
- Sur: a port town where traditional dhow boats are built, close to the Ras al Jinz turtle reserve.
Planning tips
Shoulders and knees must be covered when you enter mosques, and women visitors cover their heads. Distances between cities are long, and people fly between Muscat and Salalah. A direct flight links Istanbul and Muscat.
MBD Travel and trip notes
MBD Travel does not offer a package tour to Oman right now, so the country is hotel-led. We list 15 hotels with 115 room types: 10 in Muscat, 4 in Salalah and 1 in Sur. 7 of the hotels are five-star.
Official tourism site: Ministry of Heritage and Tourism (Omani Ministry of Heritage and Tourism) (experienceoman.om). The country's official tourism board. You can follow it before you travel.
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