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Fishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Santa Teresa, Costa RicaFishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica by Christopher Crouzet, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 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 Teresa, Costa Rica for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Teresa, Costa Rica’s own page.

Choose Tunis for

  • culture and sights
  • 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. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 84, Tunis 60: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 40, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 4, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 30, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 78, Tunis 45: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 65 points.
Good for families. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 35, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 15, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 25, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 8, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 70, Tunis 58: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica and Tunis.

Your match

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

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
34match

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

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
218 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine 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

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica's temperatures are measured 52 km from the centre, at Puntarenas.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 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 Teresa, Costa Rica: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puntarenas (51.5 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta Teresa, Costa RicaTunis
Official languageSpanishArabic
CurrencyCosta Rican Colon (CRC)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation19 m4 m
Main airportDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)113 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta Teresa, Costa RicaTunis
City population-602,560
People per km²-2,834
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.