Salalah International Airport — Salalah, Oman

Salalah International Airport, identified by SLL, serves Oman's second city from a location in the southern Dhofar region, a part of the Arabian Peninsula that experiences something almost nowhere else nearby does: a summer monsoon. Each year from roughly June through September, the khareef season blankets Dhofar's hills in cloud, mist, and unexpected green, drawing large numbers of visitors from Gulf countries eager to escape the region's usual heat for cooler, foggy landscapes. Salalah's deeper history rests on the frankincense trade, since the resin harvested from trees growing in the surrounding hills once moved through ancient ports along this coast toward Mediterranean and Asian markets, a legacy commemorated at nearby UNESCO-listed archaeological sites. SLL today handles both this seasonal tourism surge and steady domestic traffic to Muscat, along with regional connections that support Salalah's role as a secondary economic and logistics center for southern Oman.