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Banff Avenue below Cascade Mountain, Banff
BanffBanff Avenue below Cascade Mountain
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Banff by bryan pascual, Pexels License; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Banff or Havana?

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 Banff for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Havana for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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. Banff 12, Havana 64: Havana leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Banff 32, Havana 40: Havana leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Banff 22, Havana 77: Havana leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Banff 30, Havana 60: Havana leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Banff 98, Havana 34: Banff leads by 64 points.
Day trips. Banff 25, Havana 38: Havana leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Banff 60, Havana 34: Banff leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Banff 55, Havana 38: Banff leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Banff 28, Havana 30: Havana leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Banff 18, Havana 58: Havana leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Banff 32, Havana 74: Havana leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Banff 54, Havana 22: Banff leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Banff and Havana.

Your match

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

Banff
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

Havana
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Banff in July

23 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Havana 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. Banff: 1991-2020 normals, Banff (2 km from centre). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBanffHavana
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation1,400 m59 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)109 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBanffHavana
City population8,3052,492,618
People per km²1,7303,423
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.