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Durban
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Durban 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 Durban for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Tunis for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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. Durban 80, Tunis 60: Durban leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Durban and Tunis are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Tunis 33: Durban leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Tunis 45: Durban leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Tunis 38: Durban leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Tunis 38: Durban leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Tunis.

Your match

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

Durban
49match

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

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 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. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanTunis
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageArabic
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation22 m4 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanTunis
City population595,061602,560
People per km²2,6342,834
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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.