Tisno is a town and municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, in southern Croatia.

Tisno was named after the Croatian ikavian word tisno which means strait, which describes its location at the narrow strait separating the island of Murter from the mainland.

Tisno has a memorial-site dedicated to the several hundred Croatian civilians killed and dropped into a local pit in the aftermath of World War II by the communist Yugoslav regime.

The remnants of a Roman villa in Ivinj date back to the 1st AD.

The nearby area known as The Garden is host to a number of yearly electronic music festivals- such as Love International, Electric Elephant, Stopmakingsense, Defected in the House Croatia, Soundwave and Dekmantel Selectors - featuring an array of established House and Techno DJs .