Sousse
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📷 BishkekRocks 15:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)· CC BY-SA 3.0سوسة جوهرة الساحل | Sousse, the pearl of the Sahel.
About
Sousse, Sūsah, or Soussa, is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. Its economy is based on transport equipment, processed food, olive oil, textiles, and tourism. It is home to the Université de Sousse.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sousse, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Sousse
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Rain
29° / 20°
UV High
Sat
Overcast
23° / 18°
UV Very high
Sun
Overcast
22° / 16°
UV Moderate
Mon
Overcast
23° / 15°
UV Very high
Tue
Partly cloudy
23° / 16°
UV Very high
Wed
Partly cloudy
26° / 17°
UV Very high
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
35° / 11°
Typical high / low
1 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.0h
05:12 – 19:14local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Sousse
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport (MIR) at 14 km.
Getting around Sousse
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC0, Habib M’henni.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.