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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Doha or Valparaiso?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Doha leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Valparaiso 50: Doha leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Valparaiso 33: Doha leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Valparaiso 44: Doha leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Valparaiso 30: Doha leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Valparaiso 38: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Valparaiso 18: Doha leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on shopping and families with your weighting.

Valparaiso
Best match
46match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaValparaiso
Official languageArabicSpanish
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number999Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaValparaiso
City population1,186,023296,655
People per km²8,9856,180
Museums within 10 km617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.