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Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Tamarindo 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 Tamarindo for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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. Tamarindo 85, Tunis 60: Tamarindo leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Tamarindo 38, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Tamarindo 5, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 71 points.
Nightlife. Tamarindo 45, Tunis 33: Tamarindo leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tamarindo 76, Tunis 45: Tamarindo leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Tamarindo 28, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Tamarindo 55, Tunis 38: Tamarindo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Tamarindo 32, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Tamarindo 18, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Tamarindo 36, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tamarindo 10, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tamarindo 45, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tamarindo and Tunis.

Your match

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

Tamarindo
39match

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

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo 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. Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTamarindoTunis
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
Elevation27 m4 m
Main airportDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 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

MeasureTamarindoTunis
City population7,132602,560
People per km²572,834
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

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.