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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Marmaris 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 Marmaris for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

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. Marmaris 80, Tunis 60: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Tunis 33: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris 72, Tunis 45: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Marmaris 62, Tunis 38: Marmaris leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Tunis 48: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Tunis.

Your match

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

Marmaris
51match

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

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisTunis
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation7 m4 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisTunis
City population97,818602,560
People per km²1112,834
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.