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The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque
Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
VaranasiRowing boats below the ghats in the morning light

Photos: Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Varanasi by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Tunis or Varanasi?

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 Tunis for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Varanasi for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Varanasi’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. Tunis 60, Varanasi 4: Tunis leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Tunis 60, Varanasi 55: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Tunis 76, Varanasi 80: Varanasi leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Tunis 33, Varanasi 10: Tunis leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tunis 45, Varanasi 18: Tunis leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Tunis 77, Varanasi 42: Tunis leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Tunis 38, Varanasi 5: Tunis leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Tunis 48, Varanasi 28: Tunis leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Tunis 50, Varanasi 55: Varanasi leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Tunis 86, Varanasi 92: Varanasi leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tunis 38, Varanasi 58: Varanasi leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tunis 58, Varanasi 30: Tunis leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tunis and Varanasi.

Your match

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

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Varanasi
40match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

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

Varanasi in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
249 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Varanasi 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. Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre). Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureTunisVaranasi
Official languageArabicHindi, English
CurrencyTunisian Dinar (TND)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+5:30
Emergency numberPolice 197, ambulance 190, fire 198108 or 112
Elevation4 m76 m
Main airportTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days-

By the numbers

MeasureTunisVaranasi
City population602,5601,198,491
People per km²2,83414,598
Museums within 10 km162
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.