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Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago
ChicagoCloud Gate in Millennium Park
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Chicago by Jesus Toledo, Pexels License; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Chicago 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 Chicago for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • 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. Chicago 50, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Chicago 80, Tunis 60: Chicago leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Chicago 78, Tunis 76: Chicago leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Chicago 77, Tunis 33: Chicago leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chicago 48, Tunis 45: Chicago leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Chicago 42, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Chicago 78, Tunis 38: Chicago leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Chicago 72, Tunis 48: Chicago leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Chicago 70, Tunis 50: Chicago leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Chicago 33, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chicago 82, Tunis 38: Chicago leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chicago 33, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chicago and Tunis.

Your match

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

Chicago
Best match
62match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Tunis
56match

Wins on prices 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.

Chicago in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChicagoTunis
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation179 m4 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre274 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoTunis
City population2,746,388602,560
People per km²4,5292,834
Museums within 10 km4416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month5 months

Where else could you go?

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.