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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montevideo 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 Montevideo for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Montevideo 55, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Tunis 33: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Tunis 45: Tunis leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Tunis 38: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Tunis 48: Montevideo leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Tunis 38: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Tunis.

Your match

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

Montevideo
49match

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

Tunis
Best match
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.

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoTunis
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation41 m4 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoTunis
City population1,302,954602,560
People per km²1,7852,834
Museums within 10 km3616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. 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.