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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Doha or Krabi?

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

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

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

Choose Krabi for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Krabi 50: Doha leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Krabi 20: Doha leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Krabi 33: Krabi leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 78 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Krabi 40: Krabi leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Krabi 55: Doha leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Krabi 30: Doha leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Krabi 20: Doha leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Krabi 12: Doha leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Krabi.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

Krabi
Best match
49match

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
33 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
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

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaKrabi
Official languageArabicThai
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Baht (THB)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number999Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation0 m16 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureDohaKrabi
City population1,186,02330,499
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.