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The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Petra 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 Petra for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • 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. Petra 5, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Petra 22, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Petra 85, Tunis 76: Petra leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Petra 5, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Petra 78, Tunis 45: Petra leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Petra 30, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Petra 25, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Petra 25, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Petra 18, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Petra 45, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Petra 10, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Petra 28, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Petra and Tunis.

Your match

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

Petra
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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. Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePetraTunis
Official languageArabicArabic
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation850 m4 m
Main airportKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePetraTunis
City population-602,560
People per km²-2,834
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.