Tunis
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📷 Citizen59 from Tunis, Tunisie· CC BY-SA 2.0Tunis al-Khadra’ | Tunis the green
About
Tunis is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020, it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region and the eleventh-largest in the Arab world.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tunis, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Tunis
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
Overcast
28° / 17°
UV Very high
Sat
Overcast
22° / 16°
UV Very high
Sun
Rain
23° / 15°
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
24° / 14°
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
25° / 14°
UV Very high
Wed
Partly cloudy
25° / 15°
UV Very high
Thu
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
40° / 9°
Typical high / low
1 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.1h
05:12 – 19:18local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Tunis
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Tunis Carthage International Airport (TUN) at 7 km.
Getting around Tunis
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.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.