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The town beach and the Portal Maya sculpture, Playa del Carmen
Playa del CarmenThe town beach and the Portal Maya sculpture
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Playa del Carmen by lazyweaver, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Playa del Carmen 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 Playa del Carmen for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Playa del Carmen’s own page.

Choose Tunis for

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

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. Playa del Carmen 88, Tunis 60: Playa del Carmen leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Playa del Carmen 52, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Playa del Carmen 12, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Playa del Carmen 66, Tunis 33: Playa del Carmen leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Playa del Carmen 74, Tunis 45: Playa del Carmen leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Playa del Carmen 72, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Playa del Carmen 78, Tunis 38: Playa del Carmen leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Playa del Carmen 55, Tunis 48: Playa del Carmen leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Playa del Carmen 38, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Playa del Carmen 52, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Playa del Carmen 22, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Playa del Carmen 54, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Playa del Carmen and Tunis.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Playa del Carmen
55match

Wins on families and nightlife with your weighting.

Tunis
56match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Playa del Carmen in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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

Playa del Carmen has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Playa del Carmen: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePlaya del CarmenTunis
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation8 m4 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)50 km from centre137 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlaya del CarmenTunis
City population304,942602,560
People per km²-2,834
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.