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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Quito 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 Quito for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

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. Quito 5, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Quito 77, Tunis 76: Quito leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Tunis 33: Quito leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Tunis 45: Quito leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito and Tunis are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 44, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quito and Tunis.

Your match

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

Quito
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife 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.

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuitoTunis
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern QuichuaArabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation2,850 m4 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoTunis
City population1,763,275602,560
People per km²4,7352,834
Museums within 10 km1616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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). 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.