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The Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía, Cusco
CuscoThe Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía
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: Cusco by Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cusco 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 Cusco for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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. Cusco 3, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Cusco 56, Fort Myers 40: Cusco leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Cusco 81, Fort Myers 32: Cusco leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Cusco 42, Fort Myers 32: Cusco leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cusco 86, Fort Myers 63: Cusco leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Cusco 78, Fort Myers 50: Cusco leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cusco 10, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 52 points.
Getting around. Cusco 48, Fort Myers 15: Cusco leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Cusco 52, Fort Myers 38: Cusco leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Cusco 73, Fort Myers 38: Cusco leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cusco 30, Fort Myers 36: Fort Myers leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cusco 33, Fort Myers 35: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cusco and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Cusco
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches 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.

Cusco in July

20 °Cdaytime high
1 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Fort Myers in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
220 mmrain in the month
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

Cusco's station stands 151 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler 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. Cusco: 1991-2020 normals, Cuzco (3.7 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCuscoFort Myers
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua-
CurrencySol (PEN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911911
Elevation3,399 m3 m
Main airportAlejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ)5 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCuscoFort Myers
City population428,45086,395
People per km²-681
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-10 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.