Weekly note
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The numbers

Daily high36°C
Nightly low23°C
Feels like, afternoon37°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more1 · 14 mm
Humidity61%
Sunshine12.5 h/day
Daylight13.5 h/day
Days over 35°C16
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the centre, 7 km from the airport (TUN): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: about usual. Busiest in November and December; quietest in January and May.

Public holidays in August

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Tunis in pictures

What to pack

  • Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 36°C.
  • Plan the middle of the day indoors: 16 days a month pass 35°C.
  • Sun protection: about 13 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Cost of livingvery cheap — prices run about 29% of the United States' (World Bank, 2025)
CurrencyTunisian dinar
LanguagesArabic
PlugsType C and E, 230 V
DrivingOn the right
Calling code+216
Travel advice avoid all travel to parts — UK Foreign Office, updated 2026-07-24
HealthUK Foreign Office health advice

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank, refreshed 2026-10-08. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival in Tunis: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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