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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
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Puerto Escondido?

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
  • families

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Puerto Escondido 8: Fort Myers leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Puerto Escondido 35: Fort Myers leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Puerto Escondido 42: Fort Myers leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Puerto Escondido 22: Fort Myers leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Puerto Escondido 12: Fort Myers leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Fort Myers
43match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and getting around 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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Fort MyersPuerto Escondido

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.

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersPuerto Escondido
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 m60 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersPuerto Escondido
City population86,39529,903
People per km²681-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.