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The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Madrid 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 Madrid for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Madrid 5, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Madrid 80, Tunis 60: Madrid leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Madrid 86, Tunis 76: Madrid leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Madrid 85, Tunis 33: Madrid leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Madrid 60, Tunis 45: Madrid leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Madrid 89, Tunis 77: Madrid leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Madrid 68, Tunis 38: Madrid leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Madrid 84, Tunis 48: Madrid leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Madrid 75, Tunis 50: Madrid leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Madrid 50, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Madrid 77, Tunis 38: Madrid leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Madrid 36, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Madrid and Tunis.

Your match

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

Madrid
Best match
66match

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

Tunis
56match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMadridTunis
Official languageSpanishArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation663 m4 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridTunis
City population3,506,730602,560
People per km²5,8012,834
Museums within 10 km8816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.