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Abu Hamour

Abu Hamour is a Qatari district in the municipality of Al Rayyan.

Abu Hamour
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The place

Abu Hamour is a Qatari district in the municipality of Al Rayyan. Known to some as the "Wholesale Market District", it is a part of the Doha Metropolitan Area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Abu Hamour

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Al Thumama Stadium

    Al-Thumama Stadium is a football stadium in Al Thumama district in Doha, Qatar, located approximately 13 km south of the city center. It hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in the country.

    3.3 km · Stadium in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium

    Jassim bin Hamad Stadium is an association football stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, located in the Fereej Al Soudan district, about 5 kilometres west from the centre of Doha. It is the home of the Al Sadd Sports Club's association football team, who play in the top-flight Qatar Stars League, and is occasionally used by the Qatar men's and women's national football teams as one of their home grounds.

    3.6 km · Football stadium in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Grand Hamad Stadium

    The Grand Hamad Stadium, also known as the Al–Arabi Sports Club Stadium, Al-Arabi SC Stadium or Al-Arabi Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Doha, Qatar. The stadium holds 13,000 people, and is currently used mostly for staging football matches, as it is Al-Arabi SC's home ground.

    3.2 km · stadium in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium

    Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Doha, Qatar. It is the home ground of Al Ahli SC and Al-Sailiya SC. The stadium holds 18,000 people.

    4 km · stadium in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rosary

    The Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rosary is a Catholic church in Doha, Qatar. It is located, along with churches of other Christian denominations, at the Religious Complex in Abu Hamour.

    3.6 km · Roman Catholic church at the Religious Complex in Abu Hamour, Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena

    Ali Bin Hamad al-Attiyah Arena, is an indoor sports arena in Al Rayyan, Qatar. It was built for the Qatar Olympic Committee, in order to host the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.

    3.7 km · sports arena in Qatar · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mirqab Mall

    Al Mirqab Mall is a shopping mall in the Al Sadd neighborhood of Doha, Qatar. The mall has over 500 stores and service outlets selling goods including clothes, shoes, cosmetics, jewelry, textiles, handicrafts and musical instruments.

    4 km · shopping mall in Neighborhoods Al Sadd Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Abu Hamour

Airports
Doha (DIA), 7 km · Hamad (DOH), 12 km · Bahrain (BAH), 143 km
  • Manama → Abu Hamour
    143 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · $29–40
  • Hofuf → Abu Hamour
    1498 km · quickest by air, 8h 19m · SAR910–1,400
  • Ad Dammam → Abu Hamour
    1508 km · quickest by air, 7h 31m · SAR890–1,380
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Abu Hamour

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abu Hamour. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundHowever, hitchhiking always has its risks, and it is not an advisable practice for solo women.
  • Go nextHead west to see the camel races, and then visit the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum in Al Shahaniyah.
  • Go nextDrive south to visit the Dhow Harbour in Al Wakrah, and then hit the beach and go dune bashing near Mesaieed.

From Wikivoyage: Doha, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,657 km
  2. 02
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,673 km
  3. 03
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,714 km
  4. 04
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,722 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    1,819 km

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Around it

Next door to Abu Hamour

Abu Hamour is 6 km from Doha, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.