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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
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: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bariloche 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 Bariloche for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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. Bariloche 27, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Fort Myers 40: Bariloche leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Fort Myers 32: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Fort Myers 32: Bariloche leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Fort Myers 63: Bariloche leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Fort Myers 50: Fort Myers leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Fort Myers 15: Bariloche leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Fort Myers 38: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Fort Myers 38: Bariloche leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Fort Myers 36: Fort Myers leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Fort Myers 35: Bariloche leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bariloche
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bariloche in July

8 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
10 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. Bariloche: 1991-2020 normals, Bariloche Aerodrome (11.2 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheFort Myers
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m3 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheFort Myers
City population136,38186,395
People per km²619681
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.