Africa · Northern Africa
Tunisia
7 cities in the atlas · 7 airports with scheduled flights
Dougga · Photo: Emna Trabelsi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Tunis
- Currency
- TND
- Tunisian Dinar
- Local time
- Central European Standard TimeUTC+01:00
- Calling code
- +216
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C and E
Facts
Tunisia in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Tunis
- Currency
- Tunisian Dinar TNDToday's indicative rate: TND 1 ≈ USD 0.333Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: ArabicSpoken: Arabic and French
- Time zones
- Central European Standard TimeUTC+01:00
- Calling code
- +216
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C and E230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 190ambulance193other services197police198fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 12,348,573 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 163,610 km²
- Internet domain
- .tn
When to go
Climate across Tunisia
On these averages, Tunis has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in March to June and September to November.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).
Cities
Cities in Tunisia
All 7 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
Smaller places with an airport · 5
Airports
Airports in Tunisia
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Photographs
Tunisia in pictures
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.
TunisPhoto: TAKOUTI hayfa · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Tunisia
Tell us where in Tunisia, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.