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Al Thumama (Doha)

Al-Thumama is a district in Doha in Qatar.

Al Thumama (Doha)
Al Thumama (Doha) · Dr Colleen Morgan (CC BY 2.0)
The place

Al-Thumama is a district in Doha in Qatar. It comprises one of five mega reservoirs for Qatar, designed to improve water security. Completed in 2020, the reservoirs are among the largest in the world in their category. The district's Al Thumama Stadium served as one of the venues for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Al Thumama (Doha)

3 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.

    1.5 km · Stadium in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.7 km · stadium in Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.1 km · Roman Catholic church at the Religious Complex in Abu Hamour, Doha, Qatar · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Al Thumama (Doha)

Airports
Doha (DIA), 4 km · Hamad (DOH), 8 km · Bahrain (BAH), 147 km
Stations
Doha International Airport, 4 km · Oqba Ibn Nafie station, 3.1 km · Free Zone station, 3.2 km · Canada Dry One, 4 km
  • Manama → Al Thumama (Doha)
    147 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · $30–41
  • Hofuf → Al Thumama (Doha)
    199 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · SAR70–95
  • Ad Dammam → Al Thumama (Doha)
    198 km · quickest by road, 5h · SAR90–120
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Al Thumama (Doha)

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 Al Thumama (Doha). 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

    1,662 km
  2. 02
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,678 km
  3. 03
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,717 km
  4. 04
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,726 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    1,821 km

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Around it

Next door to Al Thumama (Doha)

Al Thumama (Doha) is 6 km from Doha, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.