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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Doha or Hiroshima?

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 Doha for

  • beaches
  • shopping

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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. Doha 45, Hiroshima 30: Doha leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Hiroshima 62: Hiroshima leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 75 points.
Good for families. Doha and Hiroshima are level on 60.
Getting around. Doha 45, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Hiroshima 52: Doha leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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DohaHiroshima

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaHiroshima
Official languageArabicJapanese
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaHiroshima
City population1,186,0231,198,021
People per km²8,9851,324
Museums within 10 km618
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months4 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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.