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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família
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: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Barcelona 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 Barcelona for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches

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. Barcelona 75, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Fort Myers 40: Barcelona leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Fort Myers 32: Barcelona leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Fort Myers 32: Barcelona leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona 72, Fort Myers 63: Barcelona leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Barcelona 80, Fort Myers 50: Barcelona leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Fort Myers 62: Barcelona leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Fort Myers 15: Barcelona leads by 65 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Fort Myers 38: Barcelona leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Fort Myers 38: Barcelona leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Fort Myers 36: Barcelona leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona 38, Fort Myers 35: Barcelona leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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

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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaFort Myers
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation9 m3 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaFort Myers
City population1,731,64986,395
People per km²17,094681
Museums within 10 km953
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months10 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.