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The Atomium, Brussels
BrusselsThe Atomium
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: Brussels by Ettanghe, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Brussels 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 Brussels for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Brussels 18, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Brussels 72, Fort Myers 40: Brussels leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Brussels 74, Fort Myers 32: Brussels leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Brussels 60, Fort Myers 32: Brussels leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brussels 45, Fort Myers 63: Fort Myers leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Brussels 89, Fort Myers 50: Brussels leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Brussels 60, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Brussels 72, Fort Myers 15: Brussels leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Brussels 62, Fort Myers 38: Brussels leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Brussels 40, Fort Myers 38: Brussels leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brussels 68, Fort Myers 36: Brussels leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brussels 33, Fort Myers 35: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brussels and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Brussels
Best match
58match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Brussels in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrusselsFort Myers
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch-
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
Elevation70 m3 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsFort Myers
City population195,54686,395
People per km²5,908681
Museums within 10 km1063
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km100
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). 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. 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.