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City Pairings
loose match
Muscat, Oman and Aden, Yemen are a loose climate match — 1,852 km (1,151 mi) apart. Muscat is Köppen zone BWh; Aden is BWh.
See Muscat on the interactive map →Looking outward from Muscat, the atlas lands on Aden in the same hot desert (BWh) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. From Muscat, the atlas looks only about 1,852 km (1,151 mi) away to Aden — a nearby stand-in when you want this climate elsewhere.
For Muscat, Aden is a loose outward analogue — useful, though not a perfect copy of this climate. January means differ by 4°C (Aden warmer); July by 2°C (Aden cooler). Rainfall shifts more: Aden is 20 mm drier in January.
Sunshine stays close: Aden at 10.3 h/day on average versus 10.5 h/day in Muscat (January 10.6 h / 10.1 h, July 10 h / 10.9 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (25 µg/m³ in Aden, 26 in Muscat). Humidity: dew point in Aden runs about 5°C higher in January (19°C vs 14°C), so the air feels muggier.
January & July · °C and mm
Compare Muscat and Aden month by month on the interactive map →
See Aden's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Aden, Yemen is the closest distant match for Muscat, Oman — scored loose, about 1,852 km (1,151 mi) away.
Muscat and Aden are separated by roughly 1,852 km (1,151 mi) on the great-circle route.
Yes — both cities are in the same hemisphere, so summer and winter fall in the same calendar months.
Yes — both are hot desert (BWh).
Muscat has a hot desert climate (BWh). January averages a high of 25°C and a low of 17°C with 25 mm of rain; July averages 38°C / 31°C and 1 mm.
Muscat averages about 10.1 hours of sunshine a day in January and 10.9 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 17.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 67); July averages 34.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 109).
Other close climate matches for Muscat: Djibouti (loose), Manama (loose), Jeddah (loose).
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