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The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Macau 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 Macau for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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. Macau 24, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Macau 77, Tunis 60: Macau leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Macau 62, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Macau 40, Tunis 33: Macau leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Macau 5, Tunis 45: Tunis leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Macau 52, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Macau 48, Tunis 38: Macau leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Macau 60, Tunis 48: Macau leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Macau 58, Tunis 50: Macau leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Macau 44, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Macau 36, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Macau 40, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Tunis.

Your match

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

Macau
46match

Wins on food and drink and getting around with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on prices 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.

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMacauTunis
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard ChineseArabic
CurrencyPataca (MOP)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1
Emergency number999Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation22 m4 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauTunis
City population682,100602,560
People per km²5,9162,834
Museums within 10 km2816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 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). 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. 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.