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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Doha or San Juan?

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
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose San Juan for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 67 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, San Juan 52: San Juan leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, San Juan 58: Doha leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, San Juan 38: Doha leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, San Juan 50: Doha leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Doha and San Juan are level on 38.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, San Juan 40: San Juan leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and San Juan.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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DohaSan Juan

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaSan Juan
Official languageArabicSpanish, English
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-4
Emergency number999911
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-21 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaSan Juan
City population1,186,023342,259
People per km²8,9852,847
Museums within 10 km618
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.