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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Tunis?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Arequipa for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Arequipa’s own page.

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Arequipa 8, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Tunis 60: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Tunis 33: Arequipa leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Tunis 45: Arequipa leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Tunis 48: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Tunis.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Arequipa
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and food and drink with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaTunis
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaArabic
CurrencySol (PEN)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency number111 or 911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation2,335 m4 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaTunis
City population1,008,290602,560
People per km²1,5512,834
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.