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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Hong Kong 50, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Tunis 60: Hong Kong leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Tunis 33: Hong Kong leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Tunis 45: Hong Kong leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Tunis 38: Hong Kong leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Tunis 48: Hong Kong leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Tunis 50: Hong Kong leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Tunis 38: Hong Kong leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 42, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Tunis.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Tunis
56match

Wins on prices 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.

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °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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Hong KongTunis

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHong KongTunis
Official languageStandard ChineseArabic
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1
Emergency number999Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation7 m4 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongTunis
City population7,413,070602,560
People per km²-2,834
Museums within 10 km3916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.