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Banff Avenue below Cascade Mountain, Banff
BanffBanff Avenue below Cascade Mountain
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Banff by bryan pascual, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Banff or Kotor?

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

  • wellness
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Kotor for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Banff 32, Kotor 37: Kotor leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Banff 22, Kotor 55: Kotor leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Banff and Kotor are level on 30.
Nature & outdoors. Banff 98, Kotor 80: Banff leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Banff 25, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Banff 60, Kotor 36: Banff leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Banff 55, Kotor 48: Banff leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Banff 28, Kotor 20: Banff leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Banff 18, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Banff 32, Kotor 20: Banff leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Banff 54, Kotor 24: Banff leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Banff and Kotor.

Your match

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

Banff
39match

Wins on wellness and families with your weighting.

Kotor
Best match
45match

Wins on day trips 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 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

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Banff: 1991-2020 normals, Banff (2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBanffKotor
Official languageFrench, EnglishMontenegrin
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,400 m10 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)109 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBanffKotor
City population8,305562
People per km²1,730-
Museums within 10 km43
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.