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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
Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
MaastrichtSint Servaasbrug over the Maas

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Maastricht?

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 Maastricht for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Maastricht’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, Maastricht 8: Fort Myers leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Maastricht 58: Maastricht leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Maastricht 42: Maastricht leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Maastricht 58: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Maastricht 77: Maastricht leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Maastricht 55: Fort Myers leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Maastricht 74: Maastricht leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Maastricht 60: Maastricht leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers and Maastricht are level on 38.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Maastricht 40: Maastricht leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Maastricht 52: Maastricht leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Maastricht.

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.

Maastricht
Best match
52match

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

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersMaastricht
Official language-Dutch
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 m49 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersMaastricht
City population86,395120,227
People per km²6812,000
Museums within 10 km321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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.