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Beira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower, Colombo
ColomboBeira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower
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: Colombo by Mohamed Ansaf, Pexels License; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Colombo 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 Colombo for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

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. Colombo 55, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Colombo 66, Fort Myers 40: Colombo leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Colombo 45, Fort Myers 32: Colombo leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Colombo 35, Fort Myers 32: Colombo leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Colombo 32, Fort Myers 63: Fort Myers leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Colombo and Fort Myers are level on 50.
Good for families. Colombo 35, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Colombo 35, Fort Myers 15: Colombo leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Colombo 45, Fort Myers 38: Colombo leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Colombo 78, Fort Myers 38: Colombo leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Colombo 30, Fort Myers 36: Fort Myers leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Colombo 48, Fort Myers 35: Colombo leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Colombo and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Colombo
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Colombo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
128 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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. Colombo: 1991-2020 normals, Colombo (3 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureColomboFort Myers
Official languageTamil, Sinhala-
CurrencySri Lanka Rupee (LKR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsGM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 119, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation1 m3 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)28 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureColomboFort Myers
City population647,55786,395
People per km²17,361681
Museums within 10 km103
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.