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Castle Rock, CO vs Rochester, MN

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- Rochester has 82.3% more rainy days than Castle Rock.
- Rochester has 25.9% less Sunny Days than Castle Rock.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Rochester scores 9.7% worse than Castle Rock
 Castle Rock, CORochester, MNUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock3438
 Snowfall78  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock109106
 Sunny243  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock8286
 Avg. Jan. Low19  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock6.57
 UV Index4.8  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock10242443
Reviews for Castle Rock    12 Reviews

My fiance and I moved here in 2018 shortly after finishing college. I work in Colorado Springs and she works in the Denver area, so Castle Rock was practically our only  More

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Over 7 years ago

I have always been mobile for my career, until I moved to Castle Rock. I've lived in in multiple cities in the Midwest including Chicago and have visited nearly every  More

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Over 11 years ago

we have four seasons, and the rockies are only two hrs.away. so for the outdoors enthusist sking or hiking is like no other place you have been or seen it is hard to  More

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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 5 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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