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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
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: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Avignon 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 Avignon for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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. Avignon 22, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Fort Myers 40: Avignon leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Fort Myers 32: Avignon leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Fort Myers 32: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Fort Myers 63: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Fort Myers 50: Avignon leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Avignon 45, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Fort Myers 15: Avignon leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon and Fort Myers are level on 38.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Fort Myers 38: Avignon leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Fort Myers 36: Avignon leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon and Fort Myers are level on 35.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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.

Avignon in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
24 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Fort Myers in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
220 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Avignon 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.

Avignon's sunshine is measured 65 km from the centre, at Marseille / Marignane.

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. Avignon: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Avignon / Morières-lès-Avignon (8.6 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonFort Myers
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m3 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonFort Myers
City population92,18886,395
People per km²1,420681
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.