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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
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: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Budapest 25, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Fort Myers 40: Budapest leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Fort Myers 32: Budapest leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Fort Myers 32: Budapest leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Fort Myers 63: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Fort Myers 50: Budapest leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Budapest and Fort Myers are level on 62.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Fort Myers 15: Budapest leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Fort Myers 38: Budapest leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Fort Myers 38: Budapest leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Fort Myers 36: Budapest leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Fort Myers 35: Budapest leads by 63 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and wellness 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.

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestFort Myers
Official languageHungarian-
CurrencyForint (HUF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation117 m3 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestFort Myers
City population1,675,77786,395
People per km²3,191681
Museums within 10 km813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-10 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.