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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
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: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes 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 Cannes for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • prices
  • 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. Cannes 80, Fort Myers 77: Cannes leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Fort Myers 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Fort Myers 32: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Fort Myers 32: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Fort Myers 63: Cannes leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Fort Myers 50: Cannes leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Fort Myers 15: Cannes leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Fort Myers 38: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Fort Myers 38: Fort Myers leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Fort Myers 36: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Fort Myers 35: Cannes leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on prices and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cannes in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesFort 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 airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesFort Myers
City population74,35086,395
People per km²3,793681
Museums within 10 km163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months10 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). 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.