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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Doha or Sedona?

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
  • beaches
  • shopping

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

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Doha leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Sedona 33: Doha leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Sedona 20: Doha leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Sedona 8: Doha leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 86 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Sedona 42: Doha leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Sedona 22: Doha leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Sedona 34: Doha leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Sedona 18: Doha leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Sedona 13: Doha leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Sedona.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Doha
38match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaSedona
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7
Emergency number999911
Elevation0 m1,319 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaSedona
City population1,186,0239,684
People per km²8,985195
Museums within 10 km60
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.