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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman or Doha?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amman for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Doha for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Doha’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amman 22, Doha 45: Doha leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Doha 55: Amman leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Doha 55: Doha leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Doha 20: Amman leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Doha 7: Amman leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Doha 5: Amman leads by 75 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Doha 60: Doha leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Doha 45: Doha leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Doha 60: Doha leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Doha 38: Amman leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Doha 30: Doha leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Doha 38: Amman leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Doha.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amman
Best match
45match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Doha
38match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Doha in July

43 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
33 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanDoha
Official languageArabicArabic
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Qatari Rial (QAR)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+3
Emergency number911999
Elevation776 m0 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanDoha
City population4,007,5261,186,023
People per km²2,3858,985
Museums within 10 km86
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-9 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.