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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
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Perth?

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

  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Perth for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Perth leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Perth 58: Perth leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Perth 42: Perth leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Perth 42: Perth leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Perth 72: Perth leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Perth 48: Fort Myers leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Perth 74: Perth leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Perth 55: Perth leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Perth 44: Perth leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Perth 28: Fort Myers leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Perth 50: Perth leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Perth 38: Perth 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 Perth.

Your match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Perth
Best match
53match

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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °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). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersPerth
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911000
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersPerth
City population86,3952,141,834
People per km²681334
Museums within 10 km315
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.