QatarIsland

Banana Island

0.20 km² of land in the Persian Gulf.

N 0.1 km

Beaches

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

0.20km²

Area

3km

Coastline

Highest point

34°C

Warmest sea

August

5km

To the mainland

When to go to Banana Island

Best for the beach in April and from November to December.

The sea is warmest in August (34 °C) and coolest in February (19 °C). Comfortable swimming (21 °C or more): from April to December.

20°21°18°

Jan2

19°21°18°

Feb1

21°23°20°

Mar2

24°27°23°

Apr1

28°32°27°

May0

30°34°30°

Jun0

32°36°32°

Jul0

34°36°33°

Aug0

33°35°32°

Sep0

31°32°29°

Oct0

27°28°25°

Nov2

23°23°21°

Dec2

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island in Qatar

Banana Island is an island in Qatar. It covers 0.20 km², with 3 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 8 m. The nearest mainland is 5 km away.

Getting there

Hamad International Airport (DOH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 5 km in a straight lineCar hire at DOH airport (Doha)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
5 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
April and from November to Decemberbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Banana Island.

1beaches

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 2 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.

100 %0–50 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Banana Island0 km²

Alcatraz Island0 km²

0.2 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	21	21	23	27	32	34	36	36	35	32	28	23
Night low (°C)	18	18	20	23	27	30	32	33	32	29	25	21
Sea (°C)	20	19	21	24	28	30	32	34	33	31	27	23
Rain (mm)	9	6	7	7	1	0	0	0	0	2	11	13
Wet days	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Sun h/day	6.1	6.7	7.2	7.5	9.1	10.1	9.3	9.1	8.8	8.0	6.4	5.9
Wind (km/h)	19	20	18	16	16	18	15	12	12	13	17	19

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	+0.4	±0.0	+0.4	+0.6	+0.7	+0.5	+1.3	−0.3	+0.6	+0.2	+0.5	+0.5
2021	+0.6	+1.2	+0.9	+0.9	+1.6	+0.5	+1.0	+0.7	+0.4	+0.2	+0.2	+0.8
2022	+0.3	±0.0	+0.8	+0.9	−1.0	+0.2	+0.5	+0.9	+0.7	+0.7	+1.4	+1.4
2023	+0.4	+0.6	+1.8	+0.4	+0.5	+0.8	+0.9	+1.6	+1.2	+1.7	+1.2	+1.0
2024	+1.6	+1.1	+0.6	+1.0	+0.7	+2.0	+1.5	+0.6	+1.2	+0.5	+0.3	−0.8
2025	−0.4	+0.2	−0.4	+1.3	+1.4	+0.4	+0.2	+0.8	+0.4	−0.3	−0.1	+0.5

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Grid Qatar Aerials Day 01 N1A4476 Wip 4 — ACCS2020 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Qatar Airways aeroplane parking on ground in Doha 2024 — Kaap bij Sneeuw · CC0

Qatar Airways A380-861, A7-APC, MSN 145 (02 2014), as QR 830 Doha (DOH) - Bangkok (BKK), Flight time 5 55 (28470431770) — Charles from Port Chester, New York · CC BY 2.0

Qatar Red Crescent Donation Box — Satirdan kahraman · CC BY-SA 4.0

Nearby

More islands nearby.

The Pearl Island

Qatar5.0 km²23 m12 km away

Bahrain Island

Bahrain673 km²134 m137 km away

Hawar

Bahrain39 km²14 m98 km away

Halul Island

Qatar1.6 km²52 m87 km away Sitra

Bahrain22 km²6 m140 km away

Muharraq Island

Bahrain74 km²8 m148 km away

Sir Bani Yas

United Arab Emirates84 km²102 m146 km away Tarout Island

Saudi Arabia32 km²16 m212 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q75192709) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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