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Cathedral City, CA vs Sarasota, FL

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- Sarasota has 1,066.7% more rainy days than Cathedral City.
- Sarasota has 7.4% less Sunny Days than Cathedral City.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Sarasota scores 8.1% worse than Cathedral City
 Cathedral City, CASarasota, FLUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock5638
 Snowfall0  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock106106
 Sunny271  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock9186
 Avg. Jan. Low45  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock6.87
 UV Index5.7  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock202443
Reviews for Cathedral City    3 Reviews

Cathedral City is cheaper than Palm Springs and a few other local cities. It has lovely mountain views. It's a decidely middle-middle class community, especially on  More

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Cathedral City enjoys the lowest crime rate in the entire Coachella  More

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Relatively because it depends on where you came from. We moved here from Denver. There's been one murder here this year. I feel rather safe in this area as far as  More

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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