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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 beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Fort Myers or Nuevo Vallarta?

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

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers and Nuevo Vallarta are level on 40.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Fort Myers leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Fort Myers leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Fort Myers leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Fort Myers leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Fort MyersNuevo Vallarta

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.

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersNuevo Vallarta
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m3 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersNuevo Vallarta
City population86,3951,301
People per km²681-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months12 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.