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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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. Bangkok 12, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Tunis 60: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Tunis 76: Bangkok leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Tunis 33: Bangkok leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Tunis 45: Tunis leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Tunis 38: Bangkok leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Tunis 48: Bangkok leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Tunis 50: Bangkok leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Tunis 38: Bangkok leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Tunis 58: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Tunis.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Tunis
56match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokTunis
Official languageThaiArabic
CurrencyBaht (THB)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation2 m4 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokTunis
City population5,676,648602,560
People per km²3,6192,834
Museums within 10 km5916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bangkok or Tunis somewhere new.

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.