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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
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Fort Myers or Kotor?

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

  • families
  • beaches
  • shopping

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

Choose Kotor for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Fort Myers leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Kotor 37: Fort Myers leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Kotor 30: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Kotor 36: Fort Myers leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Kotor 48: Kotor leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Kotor 20: Fort Myers leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Kotor 20: Fort Myers leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Kotor 24: Fort Myers leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Kotor.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

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). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersKotor
Official language-Montenegrin
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersKotor
City population86,395562
People per km²681-
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months5 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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.