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Fort Myers in May

sweet spot · one of the best months to go · the sunniest month of the year

The year in Fort Myers

Tap a month for its page

  1. Fort Myers in January: ok, busy
  2. Fort Myers in February: good, busy
  3. Fort Myers in March: good, busy
  4. Fort Myers in April: sweet spot
  5. Fort Myers in May: sweet spot
  6. Fort Myers in June: ok
  7. Fort Myers in July: ok
  8. Fort Myers in August: ok
  9. Fort Myers in September: good
  10. Fort Myers in October: good
  11. Fort Myers in November: good
  12. Fort Myers in December: ok, busy
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  • Busy
May at Fort Myers is 30°C by day and 22°C at night, with 7 rainy days and about 12 hours of sun a day. 30C max, 7 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high30°C
Nightly low22°C
Feels like, afternoon34°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more7 · 116 mm
Humidity74%
Sunshine11.9 h/day
Daylight13.5 h/day
Days over 35°C0
Beach and sea23 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 27 °C, warm good
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Fort Myers Beach, by the pier, 22 km from the airport (RSW): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

May: quiet. Busiest from December to March; quietest in April, May, July, September and October.

Public holidays in May

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Fort Myers in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 30°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 7 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 12 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the United states dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for United States: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Fort Myers: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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