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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 fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Lima?

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 Lima for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Fort Myers leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Lima 88: Lima leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Lima 66: Lima leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Lima 62: Lima leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Lima 45: Fort Myers leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Lima 34: Fort Myers leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Lima 42: Fort Myers leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Lima 35: Lima leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Lima 52: Lima leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Lima 70: Lima leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Lima 53: Lima leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Lima 25: Fort Myers leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Lima.

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.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation3 m154 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersLima
City population86,3959,943,800
People per km²6813,721
Museums within 10 km347
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months2 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. 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.