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Rochester, MN vs Rifle, CO

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Highlights
- Rifle has 57.5% less rainy days than Rochester.
- Rifle has 34.4% more Sunny Days than Rochester.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Rifle scores 6.2% better than Rochester

Climate
 Rochester, MNRifle, COUnited States
 Rainfall341438
 Snowfall484728
 Precipitation10988106
 Sunny180242205
 Avg. July High829186
 Avg. Jan. Low51222
 Comfort Index (higher=better)6.56.97
 UV Index3.264.3
 Elevation102453482443

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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Reviews for Rifle    6 Reviews

I love the Western Slope!! While there are a lot of good things to be said about the Western Slope of Colorado, which Rifle is, there are some concerning things as  More

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Been living in the area for 3 years, Rifle for half of that. The city recently upgraded the water facilities, and the north half of I-70 no longer has the nasty hard  More

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Over 7 years ago

This area has a heroin/meth problem. It doesn't really impact you if you avoid it, but you tend to see a lot of tweakers/beggars/homeless around town. Water is not that  More

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ZIPS IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
55901 55904 55902 55906 55905
ZIPS IN RIFLE, COLORADO
81650

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