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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
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: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cork 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 Cork for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Cork’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. Cork 25, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Fort Myers 40: Cork leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Fort Myers 32: Cork leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Fort Myers 32: Cork leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Fort Myers 63: Fort Myers leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Fort Myers 50: Cork leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Fort Myers 15: Cork leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Fort Myers 38: Cork leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Fort Myers 38: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Fort Myers 36: Cork leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Fort Myers 35: Fort Myers leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cork
45match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °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

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkFort Myers
Official languageEnglish, Irish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkFort Myers
City population222,33386,395
People per km²5,961681
Museums within 10 km53
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.