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The Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz
BiarritzThe Hôtel du Palais
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: Biarritz by Lilipiapia, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Biarritz 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 Biarritz for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • prices

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. Biarritz 68, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Biarritz 62, Fort Myers 40: Biarritz leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Biarritz 33, Fort Myers 32: Biarritz leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Biarritz 36, Fort Myers 32: Biarritz leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Biarritz 74, Fort Myers 63: Biarritz leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Biarritz 80, Fort Myers 50: Biarritz leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Biarritz and Fort Myers are level on 62.
Getting around. Biarritz 58, Fort Myers 15: Biarritz leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Biarritz 42, Fort Myers 38: Biarritz leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Biarritz 30, Fort Myers 38: Fort Myers leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Biarritz 38, Fort Myers 36: Biarritz leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Biarritz 64, Fort Myers 35: Biarritz leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Biarritz and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Biarritz
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Biarritz in July

24 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
97 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
21 °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. Biarritz: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Biarritz (2.5 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzFort 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
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzFort Myers
City population26,20686,395
People per km²2,240681
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months10 months

Where else could you go?

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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.