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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 Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Krakow?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Krakow for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Fort Myers leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Krakow 62: Fort Myers leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Krakow 58: Fort Myers leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Krakow 36: Krakow leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Krakow.

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.

Krakow
Best match
58match

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
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 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). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersKrakow
Official language-Polish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m219 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersKrakow
City population86,395804,237
People per km²6812,459
Museums within 10 km3113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 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. 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.