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Garden Grove, CA vs Rochester, MN

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- Rochester has 154.9% more rainy days than Garden Grove.
- Rochester has 34.5% less Sunny Days than Garden Grove.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Rochester scores 30.1% worse than Garden Grove
 Garden Grove, CARochester, MNUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock3438
 Snowfall0  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock109106
 Sunny275  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock8286
 Avg. Jan. Low46  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock6.57
 UV Index5.9  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock10242443
Reviews for Garden Grove    10 Reviews

I've lived here for over 20 years. City hasn't changed much. Being in the SoCal area, there's plenty of stuff to do around here. Like with all of SoCal, population has  More

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Over 8 years ago

So safe and boring that the police here rarely have anything better to do. At one time, I rented a room in another person's home and decided to put some aluminum foil  More

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Over 13 years ago

This is a very informative  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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