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Doha or Tromso?

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

The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
Tromso

Photo: Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Doha
✓ Best match
38
match

Wins on shopping and beaches with your weighting.

Tromso
35
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife 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.

DohaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Doha leads by 37 points.37
Food & drink. Doha leads by 19 points.19
Culture & sights. Doha leads by 28 points.28
Nightlife. Tromso leads by 18 points.18
Nature & outdoors. Tromso leads by 85 points.85
Day trips. Tromso leads by 9 points.9
Good for families. Doha leads by 15 points.15
Getting around. Tromso leads by 15 points.15
Shopping & style. Doha leads by 45 points.45
Affordability. Doha leads by 27 points.27
Live music & performing arts. Tromso leads by 2 points.2
Wellness & relaxation. Doha and Tromso are level on 38.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Tromso.

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
JulyDohaTromso
Daytime high43 °C16 °C
Night-time low33 °C9 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm73 mm
SunshineNo figure8 hours a day
Sea temperature33 °C10 °C
Daylight14 hours a day24 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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Doha
23
24
29
33
40
43
43
42
39
36
30
25
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Doha
20
19
21
24
28
30
33
34
33
31
27
23
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Doha
11
11
19
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
7
19
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Doha
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Doha
No sunshine record
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDohaTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
6 h 5 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
5 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
6 h 5 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
6 h 5 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 30 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
5 h 55 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
5 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
5 h 45 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
5 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureDohaTromso
Official languageArabicNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaTromso
City population1,186,02379,943
People per km²8,98532
Museums within 10 km68
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.