Best beach near Fort Myers today

Barefoot Beach Preserve, Bonita Beach, Delnor-Wiggins Pass and Vanderbilt Beach (Naples) tie for the best beach near Fort Myers today, each with a ShoreScore of 95 out of 100: Definitely Go.

Clear skies, warm air and water and calm surf.

Next: Fort Myers Beach at 93, Tarpon Bay Beach (Sanibel) at 93 and Lovers Key State Park at 90.

See the full day and best window for Barefoot Beach Preserve

All 12 beaches within 30 miles of Fort Myers, ranked

Highest ShoreScore first. The word is the call the app makes at that score.

1. 1Barefoot Beach Preserve20 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.95
2. 2Bonita Beach21 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.95
3. 3Delnor-Wiggins Pass26 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.95
4. 4Vanderbilt Beach (Naples)27 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.95
5. 5Fort Myers Beach14 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.93
6. 6Tarpon Bay Beach (Sanibel)20 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.93
7. 7Lovers Key State Park18 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.90
8. 8Blind Pass / Turner Beach22 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.88
9. 9Sanibel Lighthouse16 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.88
10. 10Bowman's Beach (Sanibel)20 mi from Fort MyersDefinitely Go.87
11. 11Captiva Island21 mi from Fort MyersGo.82
12. 12Boca Grande (Gasparilla)25 mi from Fort MyersGo.81

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How this list works

Every beach near Fort Myers gets one ShoreScore, a number from 0 to 100 that says how good a beach day it is. It comes from live weather, wind, surf, official water quality tests, the seaweed risk and rain radar, added up from now until sunset. Before sunrise and after dark it covers the whole day's light instead.

The words are the same call the app makes at each score: Definitely Go, Go, Roll the Dice, Maybe Not and Pass. When no beach reaches Go, this page says so instead of crowning a winner.

This list ranks the same numbers the live map shows, read at the time printed at the top. A beach with missing data is left out, never scored low: unknown is not bad. Open any beach for its hour by hour forecast and the best window to go.

Informational only, not for safety decisions. Lifeguards, beach flags and official notices come first at every beach, whatever the number says.

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