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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
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Fort Myers or Osaka?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Osaka for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Fort Myers leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 51 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Osaka 58: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 75 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Osaka.

Your match

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

Fort Myers
43match

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

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Fort MyersOsaka

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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersOsaka
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m20 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersOsaka
City population86,3952,751,862
People per km²68112,340
Museums within 10 km344
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months5 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. 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.