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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 opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Montpellier?

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 Montpellier for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’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, Montpellier 64: Fort Myers leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Montpellier 60: Montpellier leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Montpellier 56: Montpellier leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Montpellier 72: Montpellier leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers and Montpellier are level on 62.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Montpellier 50: Montpellier leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Montpellier 42: Montpellier 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 Montpellier.

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.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

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

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Fort MyersMontpellier

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). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersMontpellier
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m7 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersMontpellier
City population86,395310,240
People per km²6815,452
Museums within 10 km314
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. 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.