See why Roads in Qatar is Painted with Light Colours like Blue and Red

Qatar is a country in the Middle East,it is a peninsular Arab country whose terrain comprises arid desert and a long Persian (Arab) Gulf shoreline of beaches and dunes. Also on the coast is the capital, Doha, known for its futuristic skyscrapers and other ultramodern architecture inspired by ancient Islamic design, such as the limestone Museum of Islamic Art. The museum sits on the city’s Corniche waterfront promenade .

Roads in Qatar are now being painted with different colours like red, blue or even purple. This article will expose you to why it is being done so .

Qatar is situated on the coast of the Persian Gulf in the east of the country, which combines both the hot and humid climate making the country have a very high temperature as the temperature keeps soaring especially during the summers, which makes the heat unbearable.


By now you would have been wondering how paintings of roads pavement relates with temperature of a place. Well, normal Dark Asphalt has a temperature of almost 20-25 degrees celsius higher than the normal atmospheric temperature, essentially as dark pulls in and emanates heat. This temperature could take off more if there are no trees on the sides of the roads. The high temperatures are created by the absorption of heat from dark-coloured asphalt roads as they accumulate solar heat.

Lighter paintings on the other hand, lowers the temperature of the road surface by reflecting sunlight from asphalt pavement thereby reduced temperature drastically. You could experiment this by wearing a light coloured underwear (singlet) and a dark coloured one on two different sunny days, it will aid in better understanding as you will feel more hot with the dark coloured underwear compared to the lighter coloured one .


Below are photos of some coloured roads in Qatar .