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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
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Fort Myers or Hobart?

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 Fort Myers for

  • beaches
  • families
  • prices

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

Choose Hobart for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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. Fort Myers 77, Hobart 30: Fort Myers leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Hobart 30: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Hobart 85: Hobart leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Hobart 56: Fort Myers leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Hobart 45: Hobart leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers and Hobart are level on 38.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Hobart 35: Fort Myers leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Hobart 45: Hobart leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Hobart 40: Hobart leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Hobart.

Your match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Hobart
Best match
48match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 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. Fort Myers: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Myers / Page Park (4.5 km from centre). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersHobart
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation3 m54 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersHobart
City population86,395197,451
People per km²681116
Museums within 10 km38
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 monthsNone

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.