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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
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: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • food and drink
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Catania 72, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Fort Myers 40: Catania leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Fort Myers 32: Catania leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Fort Myers 32: Catania leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Fort Myers 63: Catania leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Fort Myers 50: Catania leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Fort Myers 15: Catania leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Fort Myers 38: Catania leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Fort Myers 38: Catania leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Fort Myers 36: Catania leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Fort Myers 35: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on food and drink and day trips with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °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

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaFort Myers
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m3 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaFort Myers
City population311,58486,395
People per km²1,704681
Museums within 10 km253
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.