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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Doha or Montevideo?

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
  • families
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Montevideo 54: Doha leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Montevideo 34: Montevideo leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Montevideo 55: Doha leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Montevideo 36: Doha leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha and Montevideo are level on 38.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on shopping and families with your weighting.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and nightlife 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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DohaMontevideo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaMontevideo
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-3
Emergency number999911
Elevation0 m41 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaMontevideo
City population1,186,0231,302,954
People per km²8,9851,785
Museums within 10 km636
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.