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February is the month the Muscat forum recommends without a caveat: warm sunny days, balmy evenings made for eating outside, and temperatures posters put at 23 to 26C by day and 16 to 19C at night - easy walking, easy sitting outdoors. The good stretch runs end of September to April, and the desert storms people ask about come later, from about late March into summer. The itinerary advice attached is to get out of the city: Wadi Shab and Wadi Tiwi on the roughly 200km loop down towards Sur, which February weather suits as well as it suits the corniche. The record: 26.3C days, 18.6C nights, 1.6 precipitation days, humidity near 62 percent, 10.3 hours of sun, a 23.6C sea, AQI 81.

Forum posters are direct that July is really hot in Nizwa, with one poster describing conditions as dangerously and uncomfortably hot given much sun exposure - even at night, temperatures only 'cool' into the mid-30sC. Posters cite daytime highs around 38C in Nizwa itself, with the nearby desert running hotter still, sometimes above 45C. Posters consistently recommend Jebel Akhdar as a real escape valve, sitting some 15-20C cooler than Nizwa at its summit - a genuinely different climate just a short drive up. Posters generally suggest winter, spring or autumn instead for anyone wanting to properly enjoy the region, treating a July visit to Nizwa itself as something to endure rather than savor unless paired with time up the mountain.

Nizwa's forum calls January pleasantly warm, and genuinely a touch warmer inland than on the Omani coast — regulars put the interior a couple of degrees above the coast's roughly 25°C. December and January are the busiest months to visit, so a slightly quieter trip is easier to find in February.