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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 cathedral from the gardens, Malaga
MalagaThe cathedral from the gardens

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Malaga by Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Malaga?

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

Fort Myers does not lead in any category we score.

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

Choose Malaga for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Malaga’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 and Malaga are level on 77.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Malaga 68: Malaga leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Malaga 65: Malaga leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Malaga 62: Malaga leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Malaga 73: Malaga leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Malaga 87: Malaga leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Malaga 55: Malaga leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Malaga 55: Malaga leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Malaga 45: Malaga leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Malaga 42: Malaga leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Malaga.

Your match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Malaga
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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

Malaga in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °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.

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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersMalaga
Official language-Spanish
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 m18 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)8 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersMalaga
City population86,395599,063
People per km²6811,517
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months3 months

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.