A classical particle that is initially in a classically allowed region of a potential is not confined to this region for all time if its energy is complex. Rather, the particle may travel through complex coordinate space and visit other classically allowed regions. Thus, a complex-energy classical particle can exhibit tunneling-like behavior. This tunneling behavior persists as the imaginary part of the energy tends to zero. Hence one may compare complex classical tunneling times with quantum tunneling probabilities. An accurate numerical study of quantum and classical tunneling demonstrates that as the energy increases, the probabilities associated with complex classical tunneling approach the corresponding quantum probabilities.