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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
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: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Florianopolis 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 Florianopolis for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Fort Myers for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • 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. Florianopolis 85, Fort Myers 77: Florianopolis leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Fort Myers 40: Florianopolis leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Fort Myers 32: Florianopolis leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Fort Myers 32: Florianopolis leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Fort Myers 63: Florianopolis leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis and Fort Myers are level on 50.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Fort Myers 62: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Fort Myers 15: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Fort Myers 38: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Fort Myers 38: Florianopolis leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Fort Myers 36: Fort Myers leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Fort Myers 35: Florianopolis leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Fort Myers.

Your match

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

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisFort Myers
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation3 m3 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisFort Myers
City population587,48686,395
People per km²870681
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.