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Travel and Tourism in Tunisia
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Tunisia.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
- Time Difference
- UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
- Currency
- Tunisian dinar (TND)
- Climate
- Tunisia's climate is temperate with generally mild winters and hot summers. The countryside is quite green in winter and spring; and becomes dry and brown in summer. Winters are are short, rainy, humid and chilly. The temperature is rarely below freezing. Snow falls in the northwestern mountain region. Summers in Tunis are characterized by high temperatures, occasionally reaching 120°F, with an average humidity of 60% to 70% during June, July, and August; evenings are pleasant. From mid-May until mid-October, the sky is usually cloudless and little rain falls. In an average year, only 120 days have any rainfall.
- Ethnic Groups
- Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1%
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 20 March (1956); Revolution and Youth Day, 14 January (2011)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 34 00 N, 9 00 E
- Location
- Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Libya
- Airports
- 30
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
Dougga: The Complete Roman City
The UNESCO inscription of Dougga in 1997 recognized it as "the best preserved Roman small town in North Africa," and this is a judgment that virtually every visitor confirms. Unlike Carthage, which was a major metropolis partially obscured by modern development, Dougga is a genuinely complete small town whose entire urban fabric can be read and understood from a single afternoon's exploration.
The Capitol temple at Dougga is dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, the three deities of the Capitoline Triad whose joint worship was a fundamental expression of Roman civic identity. The four Corinthian columns of its pronaos, or vestibule, rise to a height of over 14 meters and support an entablature and triangular pediment of extraordinary elegance.
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Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Medical care in Tunisia is adequate, with a number of new, private “polyclinics” available that function as simple hospitals and can provide a variety of procedures. Specialized care or treatment may not be available. Facilities that can handle complex trauma cases are virtually non-existent. While most private clinics have a few physicians who are fluent in English, the medical establishment uses French and all of the ancillary staff in every clinic communicates in Arabic and/or French.
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