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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Doha or Montego Bay?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Montego Bay 50: Doha leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Montego Bay 28: Doha leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Montego Bay 65: Montego Bay leads by 58 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Montego Bay 48: Doha leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Montego Bay 20: Doha leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Montego Bay 25: Doha leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Doha and Montego Bay are level on 38.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Montego Bay.

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.

Montego Bay
Best match
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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DohaMontego Bay

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaMontego Bay
Official languageArabicEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number999Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation0 m19 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaMontego Bay
City population1,186,023123,994
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. 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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.