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The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College
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: Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Dublin 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 Dublin for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Dublin 27, Fort Myers 77: Fort Myers leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Dublin 50, Fort Myers 40: Dublin leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Dublin 64, Fort Myers 32: Dublin leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Dublin 62, Fort Myers 32: Dublin leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dublin 70, Fort Myers 63: Dublin leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Dublin 72, Fort Myers 50: Dublin leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Dublin 57, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Dublin 66, Fort Myers 15: Dublin leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Dublin 54, Fort Myers 38: Dublin leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Dublin 20, Fort Myers 38: Fort Myers leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dublin 65, Fort Myers 36: Dublin leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dublin 25, Fort Myers 35: Fort Myers leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dublin and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Dublin
Best match
53match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDublinFort 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
Elevation20 m3 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinFort Myers
City population592,71386,395
People per km²5,154681
Museums within 10 km403
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone10 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.