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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Doha or Nuevo Vallarta?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Doha leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Doha leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Doha leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 68 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 53 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Doha leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Doha leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Doha leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Nuevo Vallarta.

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.

Nuevo Vallarta
Best match
43match

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
33 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 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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DohaNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDohaNuevo Vallarta
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 m3 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre194 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaNuevo Vallarta
City population1,186,0231,301
People per km²8,985-
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.