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Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ottawa 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 Ottawa for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Ottawa 35, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Ottawa 45, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Ottawa 62, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Ottawa 35, Tunis 33: Ottawa leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ottawa 68, Tunis 45: Ottawa leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Ottawa 55, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Ottawa 68, Tunis 38: Ottawa leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Ottawa 62, Tunis 48: Ottawa leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Ottawa 40, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Ottawa 40, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ottawa 52, Tunis 38: Ottawa leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ottawa 55, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ottawa and Tunis.

Your match

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

Ottawa
51match

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

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOttawaTunis
Official languageFrench, EnglishArabic
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation70 m4 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaTunis
City population1,017,449602,560
People per km²3662,834
Museums within 10 km2016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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). 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. 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.

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.