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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
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: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Bangkok 12, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Fort Myers 40: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Fort Myers 32: Bangkok leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Fort Myers 32: Bangkok leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Fort Myers 63: Fort Myers leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Fort Myers 50: Bangkok leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Fort Myers 15: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Fort Myers 38: Bangkok leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Fort Myers 38: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Fort Myers 36: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Fort Myers 35: Bangkok leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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

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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokFort Myers
Official languageThai-
CurrencyBaht (THB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m3 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokFort Myers
City population5,676,64886,395
People per km²3,619681
Museums within 10 km593
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months10 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bangkok or Fort Myers somewhere new.

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.