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Doha or Ubud?

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

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Doha
38
match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Ubud
✓ Best match
54
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.

DohaUbud
Beaches & swimming. Doha leads by 5 points.5
Food & drink. Doha and Ubud are level on 55.
Culture & sights. Ubud leads by 3 points.3
Nightlife. Doha leads by 6 points.6
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 69 points.69
Day trips. Ubud leads by 63 points.63
Good for families. Doha leads by 16 points.16
Getting around. Doha leads by 35 points.35
Shopping & style. Doha leads by 10 points.10
Affordability. Ubud leads by 44 points.44
Live music & performing arts. Ubud leads by 25 points.25
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 58 points.58
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Ubud.

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
JulyDohaUbud
Daytime high43 °C29 °C
Night-time low33 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm27 mm
SunshineNo figure9 hours a day
Sea temperature33 °C27 °C
Daylight14 hours a day12 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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Daytime high, °C
Doha
23
24
29
33
40
43
43
42
39
36
30
25
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
Doha
20
19
21
24
28
30
33
34
33
31
27
23
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
Doha
11
11
19
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
7
19
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
Doha
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Doha
No sunshine record
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDohaUbud
JakartaCGK, HLP
8 h 45 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€146-173
DPS · 29 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
8 h 0 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 40 m
€139-147
DPS · 29 km
MelbourneAVV, MEL, MEB
14 h 45 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
5 h 50 m
€365-640
DPS · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 55 m
€321-368
DOH · 8 km
12 h 50 m
€633-726
DPS · 29 km
New DelhiDEL
3 h 40 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
7 h 30 m
€449-537
DPS · 29 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
7 h 35 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 0 m
€127-145
DPS · 29 km
PerthPER
11 h 40 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
3 h 40 m
€225-263
DPS · 29 km
SydneySYD, WSI
15 h 15 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
6 h 5 m
€384-453
DPS · 29 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
7 h 55 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
7 h 5 m
€286-290
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
JeddahJED
2 h 15 m
€239-317
1 stop
DOH · 8 km
11 h 10 m
€700-720
1 stop
DPS · 29 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. Typical return fares for 2026-11 to 2026-12, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureDohaUbud
Official languageArabicIndonesian
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+8
Emergency number999112
Elevation0 m210 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureDohaUbud
City population1,186,023-
People per km²8,985-
Museums within 10 km614
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. 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. 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.