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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 pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Fort Myers or Kyoto?

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

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’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, Kyoto 15: Fort Myers leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Kyoto 35: Kyoto leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Kyoto 68: Kyoto leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Kyoto 50: Kyoto leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Kyoto.

Your match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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.

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

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). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersKyoto
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m51 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersKyoto
City population86,3951,463,723
People per km²6811,768
Museums within 10 km377
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.