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Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Siem Reap 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 Siem Reap for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Siem Reap 5, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Siem Reap 45, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Siem Reap 88, Tunis 76: Siem Reap leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Siem Reap 42, Tunis 33: Siem Reap leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Siem Reap 40, Tunis 45: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Siem Reap 55, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Siem Reap 35, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Siem Reap 30, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Siem Reap 38, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Siem Reap 88, Tunis 86: Siem Reap leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siem Reap 32, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siem Reap 60, Tunis 58: Siem Reap leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siem Reap and Tunis.

Your match

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

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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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Siem ReapTunis

Where the figures come from

Siem Reap 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. Siem Reap: 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

MeasureSiem ReapTunis
Official languageKhmerArabic
CurrencyRiel (KHR)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsACG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 117, ambulance 119, fire 118Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation18 m4 m
Main airportSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSiem ReapTunis
City population147,866602,560
People per km²-2,834
Museums within 10 km616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.