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The Massachusetts State House, Boston
BostonThe Massachusetts State House
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: Boston by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Boston 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 Boston for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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. Boston 35, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Boston 64, Fort Myers 40: Boston leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Boston 72, Fort Myers 32: Boston leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Boston 47, Fort Myers 32: Boston leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boston 60, Fort Myers 63: Fort Myers leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Boston 72, Fort Myers 50: Boston leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Boston 72, Fort Myers 62: Boston leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Boston 70, Fort Myers 15: Boston leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Boston 55, Fort Myers 38: Boston leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Boston 18, Fort Myers 38: Fort Myers leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boston 72, Fort Myers 36: Boston leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boston 30, Fort Myers 35: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boston and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Boston
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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.

Boston in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
18 °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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBostonFort Myers
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation43 m3 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonFort Myers
City population675,64786,395
People per km²2,910681
Museums within 10 km513
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone10 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.