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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
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Fort Myers or Lisbon?

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 Lisbon for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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, Lisbon 50: Fort Myers leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Lisbon 78: Lisbon leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Lisbon 82: Lisbon leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers and Lisbon are level on 62.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Lisbon 66: Lisbon leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Lisbon 55: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Lisbon 36: Lisbon 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 Lisbon.

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.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °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.

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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersLisbon
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m100 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersLisbon
City population86,395545,796
People per km²6815,453
Museums within 10 km380
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. 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.