Discover the best time of year, based on historical climate, temperature, and precipitation.
The best weather in Tunis is from April, May, October. — consistent weather climate
🌡Hot & dry
| Score | 54 | 62 | 72 | 92 | 91 | 75 | 46 | 45 | 75 | 89 | 88 | 66 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate | Mild | Mild | Mild | Mild | Pleasant | Pleasant | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Pleasant | Mild | Mild |
| Temperature | 8–16°C | 8–17°C | 10–19°C | 12–22°C | 15–26°C | 19–32°C | 22–35°C | 23–35°C | 21–31°C | 17–26°C | 13–21°C | 10–17°C |
| Feels like | 5–13°C | 6–15°C | 7–17°C | 11–21°C | 15–26°C | 21–33°C | 24–37°C | 25–36°C | 23–32°C | 18–26°C | 11–20°C | 7–15°C |
| Precipitation | 27mm 7 days | 40mm 7 days | 51mm 8 days | 37mm 5 days | 43mm 6 days | 17mm 2 days | 1mm 0 days | 16mm 2 days | 39mm 5 days | 50mm 7 days | 38mm 8 days | 42mm 8 days |
| Sunshine | 8.1h ☀︎ 81% | 9.1h ☀︎ 83% | 9.8h ☀︎ 82% | 10.9h ☀︎ 83% | 11.9h ☀︎ 84% | 12.8h ☀︎ 87% | 13.1h ☀︎ 91% | 12.6h ☀︎ 93% | 10.8h ☀︎ 87% | 9.4h ☀︎ 84% | 8.7h ☀︎ 85% | 8.0h ☀︎ 83% |
| Wind | W · 20 km/h | W · 19 km/h | W · 21 km/h | N · 19 km/h | N · 20 km/h | NE · 19 km/h | NE · 19 km/h | NE · 18 km/h | N · 17 km/h | W · 17 km/h | W · 17 km/h | W · 17 km/h |
| Humidity (%) | 74% | 74% | 73% | 69% | 67% | 61% | 57% | 62% | 69% | 73% | 75% | 77% |
| Day length | 10.0h | 10.8h | 12.0h | 13.2h | 14.1h | 14.6h | 14.4h | 13.5h | 12.4h | 11.2h | 10.2h | 9.7h |
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Standard guidebooks will tell you to visit Tunis in April, but May is the real masterstroke: it trades an imperceptible sliver of weather perfection for a rare collapse in crowds, letting you have North Africa's most storied capital almost to yourself.
Every standard weather chart will point you toward April in Tunis. The air is mild, the winter rains have slackened, and the jasmine hasn't yet surrendered to the Mediterranean glare. But look closer at how the city actually moves. April draws a dense surge of tour buses and packed lanes. Come May, the visitor numbers plunge, the sea breeze warms just enough to make evenings sublime, and the city exhales. You get mid-twenties warmth, brilliant sunlight bouncing off whitewashed stone, and an unhurried ease that vanishes for the rest of the year.
April is nominally the best-weather month on paper, but May is where the actual pleasure lives. In April, foot traffic through the arched alleys of the Medina is relentless, tour groups bottleneck at Bab el Bhar, and café tables along Avenue Habib Bourguiba require sharp elbows and patience.
May flips the dynamic entirely. The weather is virtually identical—afternoons climb easily into the mid-twenties with nearly twelve hours of sun a day—yet the crowds drop to their lowest level outside of peak midsummer heat. The scent of bitter orange blossoms hangs thick over residential courtyards, and the tram ride out toward the coast feels like a quiet suburban commute rather than a tourist scramble. If you want to wander the tiled palaces and quiet residential alleyways without dodging selfie sticks, May is the only window that gives you near-perfect skies without the entourage.
By late June, Tunis turns into an oven. July and August push afternoon temperatures past 35 degrees, and the humidity off the Gulf of Tunis makes midday pavement-pounding feel reckless. The city adapts by retreating behind heavy wooden doors until late afternoon. The Medina empties, shuttered against the fierce sun, and life migrates out to the waterfront at La Goulette and the coastal bluffs of La Marsa, where any trace of a sea breeze is fiercely contested.
Yet summer has one singular compensation: the Carthage International Festival. Held beneath the stars in the ancient Roman amphitheater in Carthage, performances stretch into the midnight hours when the stone finally cools down. Outside of these evening concerts, however, summer sightseeing in central Tunis is an exercise in endurance. Come only if you plan to sleep away the burning midday hours and live purely by starlight.
September arrives with the heaviest crowds of the entire year, even though the summer heat has barely receded. Temperatures still hover in the low thirties, yet the streets suddenly pack to full capacity with returning travelers and cultural tours. It is an energetic, chaotic time, but not a comfortable one for long walking tours across cobblestones.
Relief arrives by late October and November. The air cools to a crisp, golden twenty degrees, and the city’s intellectual heart takes over during the Carthage Film Festival in November. The art-deco theaters along Avenue Habib Bourguiba light up with international cinema buffs, spirited sidewalk debates, and late-night espresso runs. It is undeniably crowded, but it is the good kind of busy—a cosmopolitan cultural harvest where the city feels vital, literary, and alive.
Winter in Tunis is not freezing, but it is damp, gray, and surprisingly stubborn. From December through February, temperatures peak in the mid-teens, and while rainfall rarely arrives in deluge-style downpours, a persistent low drizzle coats the limestone paving stones of the Medina into slick glass.
Traditional tiled courtyards, built specifically to deflect blazing North African heat, become cold stone vaults that trap the damp winter chill. Even coastal hideaways like Sidi Bou Said lose their postcard glow under overcast skies, their famed blue-and-white shutters lashed by wind off the bay. March brings longer days and hints of spring, but you will still need a wool coat until the spring sun truly breaks through in late April.