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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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. Santa Fe 5, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, Tunis 60: Santa Fe leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe 66, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, Tunis 45: Santa Fe leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, Tunis 38: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, Tunis 50: Santa Fe leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, Tunis 38: Santa Fe leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 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: Santa Fe and Tunis.

Your match

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

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts 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.

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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. Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeTunis
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation2,134 m4 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeTunis
City population87,505602,560
People per km²6452,834
Museums within 10 km1016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.