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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Doha or Huatulco?

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

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Huatulco for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Huatulco’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, Huatulco 86: Huatulco leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Huatulco 44: Doha leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Huatulco 15: Doha leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Huatulco 24: Huatulco leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Huatulco 76: Huatulco leads by 69 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Huatulco 40: Huatulco leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Huatulco 56: Doha leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Huatulco 33: Doha leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Huatulco 20: Doha leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Huatulco 62: Huatulco leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Huatulco 9: Doha leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Huatulco 52: Huatulco leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Huatulco.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Huatulco
Best match
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaHuatulco
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6
Emergency number999911
Elevation0 m220 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre194 non-stop destinationsBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaHuatulco
City population1,186,0237,409
People per km²8,985-
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months12 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.