How long you can stay
Plan for 10 days
Checked 17 August 2026 · 11 official sources
How long you can stay depends on the visa you buy. The sponsored tourist visa comes in two lengths and you pick one when you apply: 6A grants 10 days for OMR 5, 6B grants 30 days for OMR 20. Both are single entry, and both must be used within three months of being issued.
See the options and what they cost →Visa at a glance
- Visa fee
- OMR 5
- Entries
- Single entry
- Extendable
- Yes
- Passport validity
- 6 months
On the day you enter
What you need to enter
Return or onward ticket
Not stated
Proof of accommodation
Not stated
Proof of funds
Not stated
Travel insurance
Not stated
Blank passport pages
Not stated
Vaccinations
Not stated
Arrival form
Not stated
“Not stated” means no official source we checked addresses it either way — not that it is unnecessary. Carry it if in doubt.
When to go
Pick a month to see what the weather actually does.
Each month shows the best of Oman's 3 regions — the region is named with it. Peak season is November, December, January, February, March, July, August — expect higher prices and crowds.
JanuaryPeak season
Excellent in Muscat and the north coast · the best month to go
- Average
- 21°C
- Rainfall
- 13mm
- Rain days
- 3
The coolest month everywhere. Muscat is 25.1°C by day, Salalah 27.5°C and almost rainless, and the Jebel Akhdar plateau drops to 4.8°C overnight — pack a fleece if the mountains are on the itinerary.
- Muscat and the north coast: Excellent · 21°C · 13mm over 3 days
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 23°C · 1mm over less than a day
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Fair · 10°C · 22mm over 2 days
FebruaryPeak season
Excellent in Muscat and the north coast
- Average
- 22°C
- Rainfall
- 14mm
- Rain days
- 3
Still cool on the coast at 26.4°C, and the wettest stretch of a very dry year in the mountains, at 30mm across two or three days.
- Muscat and the north coast: Excellent · 22°C · 14mm over 3 days
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 24°C · a trace of rain over 2 days
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Good · 12°C · 30mm over 3 days
MarchPeak season
Excellent in Muscat and the north coast
- Average
- 25°C
- Rainfall
- 16mm
- Rain days
- 2
The last comfortable month in Muscat before the heat, at 29.5°C. Saiq is 20.2°C by day, which is the plateau's own best weather.
- Muscat and the north coast: Excellent · 25°C · 16mm over 2 days
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 26°C · 6mm over less than a day
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Excellent · 15°C · 36mm over 3 days
April
Excellent in Salalah and Dhofar
- Average
- 28°C
- Rainfall
- 6mm
- Rain days
- 1
Muscat crosses into the mid-thirties, 34.7°C, and the coast stops being pleasant in the middle of the day. Salalah is 31.8°C and dry.
- Muscat and the north coast: Good · 30°C · 11mm over one day
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 28°C · 6mm over one day
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Excellent · 19°C · 28mm over 2 days
May
Excellent in Salalah and Dhofar
- Average
- 30°C
- Rainfall
- 8mm
- Rain days
- 1
The hottest month on the north coast — 39.6°C, and 28.7°C overnight, with effectively no rain. Sightseeing in Muscat becomes an early-morning activity.
- Muscat and the north coast: Poor · 34°C · no rain at all
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 30°C · 8mm over one day
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Excellent · 23°C · 22mm over 2 days
June
Excellent in Salalah and Dhofar
- Average
- 30°C
- Rainfall
- 8mm
- Rain days
- 3
Muscat peaks at 40.0°C. Salalah is 32.0°C and its rain days start climbing as the khareef sets in, and the mountains at 30.8°C are the coolest thing in the north.
- Muscat and the north coast: Poor · 35°C · 11mm over less than a day
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 30°C · 8mm over 3 days
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Excellent · 25°C · 14mm over 3 days
JulyPeak season
Excellent in Salalah and Dhofar
- Average
- 27°C
- Rainfall
- 22mm
- Rain days
- 7
The month the country splits in two: 38.0°C in Muscat against 28.5°C in Salalah, where the khareef brings drizzle on 7.4 days and turns Dhofar green. This is the one time of year the far south is the obvious choice.
- Muscat and the north coast: Fair · 34°C · 3mm over less than a day
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 27°C · 22mm over 7 days
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Excellent · 26°C · 47mm over 4 days
AugustPeak season
Excellent in Salalah and Dhofar
- Average
- 25°C
- Rainfall
- 25mm
- Rain days
- 8
Salalah's coolest and wettest month, 27.1°C and 25.1mm over 8.0 days, and still 35.6°C up in Muscat. The mountains get their wettest month too, at 47.7mm.
- Muscat and the north coast: Good · 32°C · 2mm over one day
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 25°C · 25mm over 8 days
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Excellent · 25°C · 48mm over 4 days
September
Excellent in Salalah and Dhofar
- Average
- 27°C
- Rainfall
- 10mm
- Rain days
- 3
The khareef breaks and Salalah rebounds to 29.3°C with the greenery still on the hills. Muscat is unchanged at 35.6°C.
- Muscat and the north coast: Good · 31°C · no rain at all
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 27°C · 10mm over 3 days
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Excellent · 23°C · 29mm over 2 days
October
Excellent in Salalah and Dhofar
- Average
- 27°C
- Rainfall
- 5mm
- Rain days
- 0
The heat finally lets go of the coast — 34.6°C and dropping through the month, and Salalah is dry again at 31.0°C.
- Muscat and the north coast: Good · 29°C · 1mm over less than a day
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 27°C · 5mm over less than a day
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Excellent · 19°C · 13mm over one day
NovemberPeak season
Excellent in Muscat and the north coast
- Average
- 26°C
- Rainfall
- 2mm
- Rain days
- 1
The start of the good season. Muscat is 30.3°C, Salalah 31.3°C with 0.4mm of rain all month, and the plateau is 19.5°C by day.
- Muscat and the north coast: Excellent · 26°C · 2mm over one day
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 27°C · no rain at all
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Good · 14°C · 8mm over one day
DecemberPeak season
Excellent in Muscat and the north coast
- Average
- 23°C
- Rainfall
- 17mm
- Rain days
- 1
Muscat is back to 26.8°C, and this is its wettest month at all of 16.5mm. Nights on the Jebel Akhdar are 6.1°C.
- Muscat and the north coast: Excellent · 23°C · 17mm over one day
- Salalah and Dhofar: Excellent · 25°C · 5mm over less than a day
- Jebel Akhdar mountains: Good · 12°C · 12mm over one day
Where you go changes the answer
How Oman's regions differ, and when it matters
Oman's three regions run on different calendars, and the gap between them is the largest of any country on this site. Muscat is at its best from November to March and genuinely dangerous to sightsee in from May to July, when the average high sits at 39.6–40.0°C. Salalah, 1,000km south-west in Dhofar, inverts that: while Muscat is at 38°C in July, Salalah's average high is 28.5°C, because the khareef monsoon brings cloud and drizzle up the escarpment — 7.4 rain days in July and 8.0 in August, against under one for most of its year. And Saiq, on the Jebel Akhdar plateau at around 2,000m, is a different country again: 15.2°C by day in January and 4.8°C at night, so it needs a jacket in the months everyone else calls perfect.
What it costs
₹₹ · per person per day
- BudgetHostels, street food, public transport₹4,000
- Mid-range3-star hotels, restaurants, some activities₹9,000
- Luxury4–5 star hotels, private transport, experiences₹28,000
Excludes international flights. Our estimate, not an official figure — reviewed 17 August 2026. A typical trip runs 6–10 days.
Where to go
Muscat
A low, white capital strung along the coast between bare mountains and the sea. The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, the Royal Opera House, the Mutrah corniche and its souq are the set pieces; the old Portuguese forts above the harbour are the view.
Nizwa and the interior
The old inland capital, with a round fort tower built to absorb cannon fire and a Friday livestock market that still works as one. The base for Bahla and Jabrin forts and the falaj irrigation channels of the oases.
Wahiba Sands
Dune country — long ridges of orange sand reached by deflating your tyres and driving in. Desert camps do the sunset-and-stars version; the drive out to Wadi Bani Khalid's pools is usually part of the same trip.
Jebel Akhdar and Jebel Shams
The high plateau and Oman's deepest canyon, at around 2,000m and reached by a four-wheel-drive-only road. Terraced villages, rose gardens in spring, and the coolest air in the country — 15°C by day in January.
Salalah and Dhofar
The far south-west, and a different climate entirely. Frankincense trees, long empty beaches and a monsoon that turns the escarpment green from July to September while the rest of the Gulf bakes.
Musandam
The peninsula at the top of the country, cut off from the rest of Oman by the UAE and reached by air, road through the Emirates, or sea. Fjord-like inlets, dhow trips and dolphins.
The full rules
Everything official, quoted rather than summarised.
If you hold another country’s visa or residence
Oman eases entry for Indian passport holders who already hold certain documents from other countries. These routes are conditional and the conditions are strict — read them in full, and confirm with your airline before you book, because airlines decide boarding on their own reading of the rules.
No visa needed· 14 days per visit
- The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism states the condition in one sentence: nationals of the 2nd list “must be residents of one of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries according to the specified professions or have a valid entry visa for one of the following countries (the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Schengen Agreement countries and Japan)”.
- What you get: “The visitor will be allowed to stay in the Sultanate of Oman for a period of 14 days, which cannot be extended or transferred.”
- Four things are required with it, in the Ministry's words: a “Passport valid for at least six months from the date of entry”, and the visitor “must hold a return ticket, hotel reservation, health insurance, and to cover the expenses during the stay”.
- Family travel with you: “The husband and children benefit from this facility, even if they are not nationals of the above countries, as long as they are accompanied by the visitor after submitting the required documents.”
- ⚠️ This is the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism's published facility. The Royal Oman Police lists a matching 14-day free entry as visa subtype 26O, but describes it only as being for “G1 Special” countries and publishes no list of who those are, so the Ministry's own list is what this rests on.
Ministry of Heritage and Tourism — Lists of Countries with Visa-Free Entry to Sultanate of Oman: India on the 2nd (conditional) list, with the 14-day allowance and its conditions · read 17 August 2026
Simplified application· Plan for 10 days
- What you get: an unsponsored e-visa, applied for yourself. The Royal Oman Police states on each of these subtypes that “This visa does not require a sponsor in Oman” — which is the whole difference from the sponsored route above.
- The document that qualifies, in the Royal Oman Police's own words: “Applicant must hold either: a valid Schengen Visa; OR a Valid Residency Visa or Multi-Entry Visa from Great Britain, Australia, U.S.A, Canada or Japan.”
- ⚠️ Read that sentence carefully, because it is narrower than the summary beside it. The visa description says “a valid visa to one of the following countries (USA, UK, Canada, Australia or Japan)”, while the granting condition asks for a residency visa or a multi-entry visa from those five. Only the Schengen route is unqualified in both places. If your US or UK visa is a used single-entry visitor visa, ask before you pay.
- You must upload a copy of it: “Copy of valid Schengen visa or a valid visa to one of the following countries (United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan or Australia)”, along with a digital photograph and a copy of your passport.
- Two conditions the sponsored visas do not carry: “Applicant must have a valid hotel booking in Sultanate of Oman” and “Applicant must have a return ticket.” You must also be outside Oman when you apply, and hold no other current Oman visa.
- The 10-day and 30-day visas each extend by their own length again. The one-year multi-entry visa does not: “The stay in Oman cannot be extended.”
Royal Oman Police eVisa portal — visa subtype 26M (Tourist Visit Visa 30DCG1) conditions sheet: 30 days, OMR 20, and the qualifying-document rule · read 17 August 2026
No visa needed· 14 days per visit
- The same Ministry of Heritage and Tourism sentence covers Gulf residents: nationals of the 2nd list qualify if they “are residents of one of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries according to the specified professions”. The 14 days, the six-month passport, the return ticket, hotel reservation, health insurance and funds all apply exactly as on the held-visa route above.
- ⚠️ “According to the specified professions” is the catch, and neither the Ministry's list nor the Royal Oman Police publishes the professions in anything we could read. Treat this route as conditional on your job title and confirm it before you fly.
- The Ministry adds that residents “who have work visas according to specific professions or tourist visas, can benefit from this facility”.
- There is also a paid alternative if the free facility does not apply: running the Royal Oman Police's eligibility wizard as an Indian resident in the UAE returns visa subtype 29A, the GCC Resident Visa, at OMR 5 for 28 days, single entry, extendable once by a week. Its conditions require at least six months of your GCC residency remaining on entry, and that you “Must be on the list of approved professions” — the same unpublished list.
Ministry of Heritage and Tourism — Lists of Countries with Visa-Free Entry to Sultanate of Oman: the GCC-residency condition on the 2nd list · read 17 August 2026
The detail
Conditions in full, fees, entries, and extending your stay
- India is not on Oman's unconditional visa-free list. The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism publishes two lists: a 1st List of 73 countries with visa-free entry, and a “2nd List (Conditional Countries)” of 30. India is the first name on the conditional list.
- ⚠️ There is no unconditional tourist e-visa for an ordinary Indian passport. Run the Royal Oman Police's own eligibility wizard for India, not resident in the GCC, and every tourist visa it returns is conditional — each one requires a Schengen, US, UK, Canadian, Australian or Japanese visa, or a family link to someone who holds one. The same wizard run for a 1st-List nationality returns the plain 26A and 26B tourist visas instead, which is how we know the answer is India-specific rather than a default list.
- Without one of those documents, the route is a sponsored tourist visa: subtype 6A, 10 days, OMR 5, or 6B, 30 days, OMR 20. The Royal Oman Police describes both as a “Visit to Oman for a person sponsored by a local sponsor”, and its conditions require “A typed and stamped letter from the sponsor explaining the purpose of the visit” and that you “Must be sponsored by an approved Oman sponsor”. It does not publish who qualifies as an approved sponsor, so ask the hotel or tour operator you are booking through whether they can sponsor the application.
- Both tourist visas are single entry — “Visa can only be used for a single entry to Oman” — with a use-by period of three months, and you “Must be outside the Sultanate of Oman at time of application”.
- Your passport must be valid for at least six months on the date you enter, on every route Oman publishes.
- ⚠️ Overstaying is charged at OMR 10 for each day, stated both on the visa conditions and in the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism's own list: “late fines will be calculated at 10 riyals per day”.
- The Royal Oman Police adds the usual caveat in its own words: “Possession of a valid visa does not guarantee that a traveller will be granted entry to Oman. Entry to Oman is at the discretion of the Royal Oman Police officer at the port of entry.”
- If you hold a Schengen, US, UK, Canadian, Australian or Japanese visa, or you live in the Gulf, Oman is a great deal easier — see “If you hold another country's visa” below.
- Extending your stay
- Possible. The Royal Oman Police states for both tourist visa lengths: “First time Extension of Stay can be done by the applicant. Second and subsequent extensions can only be done by visiting a DGPCS office”, and “Extension of stay allowed is the same as the original visa” — so a 10-day visa extends by 10 days and a 30-day visa by 30. No extension fee is published on either visa's own conditions sheet.
- Number of entries
- Single entry. Once you leave, the authorisation is spent.
- Visa fee
- OMR 5.
- Where to apply, if you need a visa
- https://evisa.rop.gov.om/en/home
Common questions
- Do Indians need a visa for Oman?
- Indian ordinary passport holders must arrange a visa in advance to visit Oman for tourism. Last checked 17 August 2026.
- How long can Indians stay in Oman?
- It depends which visa you buy — the shortest tourist visa gives 10 days. The sponsored tourist visa comes in two lengths and you pick one when you apply: 6A grants 10 days for OMR 5, 6B grants 30 days for OMR 20. Both are single entry, and both must be used within three months of being issued.
- How long must my passport be valid to enter Oman?
- Your passport must be valid for at least 6 months on the date you enter Oman. Renew before you travel if it expires sooner.
- When is the best time to visit Oman?
- January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. These ratings are based on climate normals measured at Muscat (Seeb), Salalah, Saiq. Oman has more than one climate — a month counts as good if any region is, so check the month-by-month breakdown to see which one before booking.
- How much does a trip to Oman cost per day?
- Roughly ₹4,000 per day on a budget, ₹9,000 mid-range, or ₹28,000 for luxury travel — per person, excluding international flights. Estimated 17 August 2026.
Sources
Every visa fact on this page comes from one of these. Verified by Rahul Chhabrani on 17 August 2026.
- Ministry of Heritage and Tourism — Lists of Countries with Visa-Free Entry to Sultanate of Oman (8-page PDF): India first on the 2nd (conditional) list, 14 days, and the conditions attached
Government · read 17 August 2026
- Royal Oman Police eVisa portal — Visa Eligibility Wizard for Unsponsored Visas, run for INDIA / not a GCC resident: every tourist visa returned is conditional on holding another country's visa
Government · read 17 August 2026
- Royal Oman Police eVisa portal — visa subtype 6A (Tourist Visa 10D) conditions sheet: 10 days, OMR 5, single entry, sponsor letter required
Government · read 17 August 2026
- Royal Oman Police eVisa portal — visa subtype 6B (Tourist Visa 30D) conditions sheet: 30 days, OMR 20, single entry, sponsor letter required
Government · read 17 August 2026
- Royal Oman Police eVisa portal — visa subtype 26M (Tourist Visit Visa 30DCG1) conditions sheet: 30 days, OMR 20, unsponsored, qualifying-document rule
Government · read 17 August 2026
- Royal Oman Police eVisa portal — visa subtype 26N (Tourist Visit Visa 10DCG1) conditions sheet: 10 days, OMR 5, unsponsored, qualifying-document rule
Government · read 17 August 2026
- Royal Oman Police eVisa portal — visa subtype 36M (Tourist Visit Visa 1YME CG1) conditions sheet: one-year multi-entry, OMR 50, 30 days per stay, no extension
Government · read 17 August 2026
- Royal Oman Police eVisa portal — visa subtype 29A (GCC Resident Visa VOA) conditions sheet: 28 days, OMR 5, approved-professions list, six months of residency remaining
Government · read 17 August 2026
- WMO World Weather Information Service — Muscat (Seeb) normals, 1986–2009, supplied by Oman
Intergovernmental · read 17 August 2026
- WMO World Weather Information Service — Salalah normals, 1986–2009, supplied by Oman
Intergovernmental · read 17 August 2026
- WMO World Weather Information Service — Saiq (Jebel Akhdar) normals, 1998–2009, supplied by Oman
Intergovernmental · read 17 August 2026
Before you book
This page covers ordinary Indian passports, for tourism only. Rules for business, study, transit and diplomatic or official passports differ and are not covered here.
Visa rules change without notice. Everything here was checked against official sources on 17 August 2026. The final decision on entry always rests with immigration officers at the border. Confirm with the embassy before booking anything non-refundable.