The Gulf

Four capitals of the Gulf, none more than an hour's flight from the next. 4 stops, 1,137 km end to end as the crow flies.

Doha — Photo by StellarD, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

February and March are a sweet spot at every one of these 4 destinations.

The stops, in order

Month by month

Place	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Dubai	25°	27°	30°	35°	39°	42°	43°	43°	41°	37°	31°	27°
Abu Dhabi	24°	26°	30°	35°	39°	42°	43°	43°	41°	37°	31°	27°
Doha	22°	23°	27°	32°	37°	40°	41°	41°	39°	35°	30°	25°
Muscat	24°	26°	29°	33°	37°	38°	36°	36°	35°	33°	29°	25°
Sweet spots	3	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0

Place

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Sweet spots

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high, from the same ten years of climate readings its page is built from. A dot marks a busy month. The last row counts the sweet spots, and the best months are marked.

Between the stops

Dubai → Abu Dhabi	116 km, about 1h 03m in the air
Abu Dhabi → Doha	320 km, about 1h 18m in the air Nonstop, about 8 a day · Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways By road: 606 km, about 5h 26m
Doha → Muscat	701 km, about 1h 46m in the air Nonstop, about 5 a day · Oman Air, Qatar Airways By road: 1,041 km, about 9h 31m

Distances are great-circle and the flight time is estimated from them. A road, train or bus line is listed only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, trains and buses from public timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each stop's page are where prices live.

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about The Gulf as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.