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Doha or Portland?

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

Hawthorne Bridge and downtown, Portland
Portland

Photo: Cacophony, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Doha
38
match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Portland
✓ Best match
52
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.

DohaPortland
Beaches & swimming. Doha leads by 25 points.25
Food & drink. Portland leads by 13 points.13
Culture & sights. Doha leads by 17 points.17
Nightlife. Portland leads by 32 points.32
Nature & outdoors. Portland leads by 77 points.77
Day trips. Portland leads by 53 points.53
Good for families. Doha leads by 5 points.5
Getting around. Portland leads by 17 points.17
Shopping & style. Doha leads by 8 points.8
Affordability. Doha and Portland are level on 38.
Live music & performing arts. Portland leads by 25 points.25
Wellness & relaxation. Portland leads by 4 points.4
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Portland.

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
JulyDohaPortland
Daytime high43 °C27 °C
Night-time low33 °C15 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm13 mm
Sea temperature33 °CNo sea
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Doha
23
24
29
33
40
43
43
42
39
36
30
25
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Doha
20
19
21
24
28
30
33
34
33
31
27
23
Portland
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Doha
11
11
19
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
7
19
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Doha
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDohaPortland
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 20 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
14 h 10 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
14 h 40 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
15 h 55 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
15 h 40 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
14 h 45 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
13 h 0 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
13 h 45 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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.

Before you go

MeasureDohaPortland
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation0 m152 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaPortland
City population1,186,023652,503
People per km²8,9851,736
Museums within 10 km617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.