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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 Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower, Shanghai
ShanghaiThe Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Shanghai by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Fort Myers or Shanghai?

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 Shanghai for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Shanghai’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, Shanghai 10: Fort Myers leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Shanghai 88: Shanghai leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Shanghai 72: Shanghai leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Shanghai 25: Fort Myers leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Shanghai 90: Shanghai leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Shanghai 85: Shanghai leads by 70 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Shanghai 82: Shanghai leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Shanghai 55: Shanghai leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Shanghai 66: Shanghai leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Shanghai 55: Shanghai 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 Shanghai.

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.

Shanghai
Best match
66match

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

Shanghai in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
151 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Fort MyersShanghai

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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersShanghai
Official language-Putonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation3 m4 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre207 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersShanghai
City population86,39524,870,895
People per km²6813,922
Museums within 10 km345
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.