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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The 1933 courthouse in downtown Fort Myers, now an arts centre, Fort Myers
Fort MyersThe 1933 courthouse in downtown Fort Myers, now an arts centre

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Fort Myers?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Arequipa for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Arequipa’s own page.

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Fort Myers’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Arequipa 8, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Fort Myers 40: Arequipa leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Fort Myers 32: Arequipa leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Fort Myers 32: Arequipa leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Fort Myers 63: Arequipa leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Fort Myers 50: Fort Myers leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Fort Myers 15: Arequipa leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Fort Myers 38: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Fort Myers 38: Arequipa leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Fort Myers 36: Fort Myers leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Fort Myers 35: Fort Myers leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Fort Myers.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Arequipa
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Fort Myers in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
220 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Fort Myers has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaFort Myers
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation2,335 m3 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaFort Myers
City population1,008,29086,395
People per km²1,551681
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-10 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.