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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Doha for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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. Antibes 80, Doha 45: Antibes leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Doha 55: Doha leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Doha 55: Doha leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Doha 20: Antibes leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Doha 7: Antibes leads by 63 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Doha 5: Antibes leads by 83 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Doha 60: Doha leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Doha 45: Antibes leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Doha 60: Doha leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Doha 38: Doha leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Doha 30: Antibes leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Doha 38: Antibes leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Doha.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesDoha
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Qatari Rial (QAR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112999
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre194 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesDoha
City population77,6371,186,023
People per km²2,9308,985
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months9 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.