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The Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane
BrisbaneThe Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves
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: Brisbane by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Brisbane 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 Brisbane for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Brisbane’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. Brisbane 55, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Brisbane 60, Fort Myers 40: Brisbane leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Brisbane 42, Fort Myers 32: Brisbane leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Brisbane 55, Fort Myers 32: Brisbane leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brisbane 74, Fort Myers 63: Brisbane leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Brisbane and Fort Myers are level on 50.
Good for families. Brisbane 78, Fort Myers 62: Brisbane leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Brisbane 62, Fort Myers 15: Brisbane leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Brisbane 45, Fort Myers 38: Brisbane leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Brisbane 33, Fort Myers 38: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brisbane 55, Fort Myers 36: Brisbane leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brisbane 40, Fort Myers 35: Brisbane leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brisbane and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Brisbane
Best match
54match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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.

Brisbane in July

22 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
11 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. Brisbane: 1991-2020 normals, Brisbane (4.5 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrisbaneFort Myers
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportBrisbane International Airport (BNE)13 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrisbaneFort Myers
City population2,706,96686,395
People per km²171681
Museums within 10 km163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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). 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.