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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
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: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Cardiff 30, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Fort Myers 40: Cardiff leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Fort Myers 32: Cardiff leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Fort Myers 32: Cardiff leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Fort Myers 63: Cardiff leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Fort Myers 50: Cardiff leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Fort Myers 15: Cardiff leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Fort Myers 38: Cardiff leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Fort Myers 38: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Fort Myers 36: Cardiff leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Fort Myers 35: Fort Myers leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Cardiff
Best match
52match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffFort Myers
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation41 m3 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffFort Myers
City population383,53686,395
People per km²2,734681
Museums within 10 km93
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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.