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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 Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Fort Myers by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Fort Myers or Venice?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Fort Myers leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Fort Myers 40, Venice 60: Venice leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Myers 32, Venice 94: Venice leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Fort Myers 32, Venice 27: Fort Myers leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Myers 63, Venice 45: Fort Myers leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Fort Myers 50, Venice 86: Venice leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Fort Myers 62, Venice 45: Fort Myers leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Fort Myers 15, Venice 68: Venice leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Myers 38, Venice 57: Venice leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Fort Myers 38, Venice 20: Fort Myers leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Myers 36, Venice 62: Venice leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Myers 35, Venice 40: Venice 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 Venice.

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.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort MyersVenice
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)12 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort MyersVenice
City population86,395250,369
People per km²681602
Museums within 10 km352
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.