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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
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Fort Myers or San Juan?

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

  • families

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

Choose San Juan for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, San Juan 52: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, San Juan 58: Fort Myers leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, San Juan 38: San Juan leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, San Juan 50: San Juan leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers and San Juan are level on 38.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, San Juan 40: San Juan leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Myers and San Juan.

Your match

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

Fort Myers
43match

Wins on families with your weighting.

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights 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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Fort MyersSan Juan

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). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersSan Juan
Official language-Spanish, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m3 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersSan Juan
City population86,395342,259
People per km²6812,847
Museums within 10 km318
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. 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.