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Doha or Kotor?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
Doha

Photo: Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
Kotor

Photo: Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License

Your match

Doha
38
match

Wins on shopping and families with your weighting.

Kotor
✓ Best match
45
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

DohaKotor
Beaches & swimming. Kotor leads by 12 points.12
Food & drink. Doha leads by 18 points.18
Culture & sights. Doha and Kotor are level on 55.
Nightlife. Kotor leads by 10 points.10
Nature & outdoors. Kotor leads by 73 points.73
Day trips. Kotor leads by 67 points.67
Good for families. Doha leads by 24 points.24
Getting around. Kotor leads by 3 points.3
Shopping & style. Doha leads by 40 points.40
Affordability. Kotor leads by 19 points.19
Live music & performing arts. Doha leads by 10 points.10
Wellness & relaxation. Doha leads by 14 points.14
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Kotor.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyDohaKotor
Daytime high43 °C33 °C
Night-time low33 °C20 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm38 mm
SunshineNo figure11 hours a day
Sea temperature33 °C25 °C
Daylight14 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Doha
23
24
29
33
40
43
43
42
39
36
30
25
Kotor
11
12
15
19
24
30
33
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Doha
20
19
21
24
28
30
33
34
33
31
27
23
Kotor
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Doha
11
11
19
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
7
19
Kotor
162
148
151
140
88
56
38
54
173
169
256
229
Daylight, hours per day
Doha
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Kotor
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Doha
No sunshine record
Kotor
4
4
6
6
8
10
11
11
7
6
3
3

Where the figures come from

Kotor's temperatures are measured 40 km from the centre, at Podgorica / Golubovci.

Kotor's rainfall is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Podgorica / Golubovci (39.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDohaKotor
BelgradeBEG
4 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 0 m
€108-150
TIV · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 55 m
€321-368
DOH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€160-280
TGD · 40 km
ViennaVIE
5 h 20 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€179-223
TGD · 40 km
DublinDUB
7 h 20 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 44 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 45 m
€246-282
1 stop
TIV · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
6 h 5 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 44 km
RomeFCO, CIA
5 h 25 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 44 km
MadridMAD
6 h 55 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km
AlmatyALA
4 h 15 m
€440-550
DOH · 8 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 20 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 44 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureDohaKotor
Official languageArabicMontenegrin
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureDohaKotor
City population1,186,023562
People per km²8,985-
Museums within 10 km63
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.