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Banff Avenue below Cascade Mountain, Banff
BanffBanff Avenue below Cascade Mountain
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Banff by bryan pascual, Pexels License; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Banff or Puerto Princesa?

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

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Banff 32, Puerto Princesa 38: Puerto Princesa leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Banff and Puerto Princesa are level on 22.
Nightlife. Banff 30, Puerto Princesa 26: Banff leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Banff 98, Puerto Princesa 80: Banff leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Banff 25, Puerto Princesa 12: Banff leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Banff 60, Puerto Princesa 45: Banff leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Banff 55, Puerto Princesa 30: Banff leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Banff 28, Puerto Princesa 20: Banff leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Banff 18, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Banff 32, Puerto Princesa 10: Banff leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Banff 54, Puerto Princesa 40: Banff leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Banff and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Banff
39match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 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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BanffPuerto Princesa

Where the figures come from

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Banff: 1991-2020 normals, Banff (2 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBanffPuerto Princesa
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,400 m98 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)109 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBanffPuerto Princesa
City population8,305316,384
People per km²1,730133
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.