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A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

San Juan 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 San Juan for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • 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. San Juan 84, Tunis 60: San Juan leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. San Juan 66, Tunis 60: San Juan leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. San Juan 64, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. San Juan 70, Tunis 33: San Juan leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Juan 74, Tunis 45: San Juan leads by 29 points.
Day trips. San Juan 52, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 25 points.
Good for families. San Juan 58, Tunis 38: San Juan leads by 20 points.
Getting around. San Juan 38, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. San Juan and Tunis are level on 50.
Affordability. San Juan 38, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Juan 55, Tunis 38: San Juan leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Juan 40, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Juan 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

San Juan
57match

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

Tunis
56match

Wins on prices 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.

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan JuanTunis
Official languageSpanish, EnglishArabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation3 m4 m
Main airportLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JuanTunis
City population342,259602,560
People per km²2,8472,834
Museums within 10 km1816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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. 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.