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Banff Avenue below Cascade Mountain, Banff
BanffBanff Avenue below Cascade Mountain
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

Photos: Banff by bryan pascual, Pexels License; Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Banff or Ubud?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Ubud for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Ubud leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Banff 32, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Banff 22, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Banff 30, Ubud 15: Banff leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Banff 98, Ubud 80: Banff leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Banff 25, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Banff 60, Ubud 48: Banff leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Banff 55, Ubud 10: Banff leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Banff 28, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Banff 18, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Banff 32, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Banff 54, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Banff and Ubud.

Your match

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

Banff
39match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and day trips 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

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BanffUbud

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBanffUbud
Official languageFrench, EnglishIndonesian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,400 m210 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)109 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBanffUbud
City population8,305-
People per km²1,730-
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.