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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
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Montevideo?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Fort Myers leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Montevideo 34: Fort Myers leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Montevideo 55: Fort Myers leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Montevideo 36: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersMontevideo
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m41 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersMontevideo
City population86,3951,302,954
People per km²6811,785
Museums within 10 km336
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months4 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.