2025 Compare Cities Climate:
Rochester, MN vs Fort Collins, CO

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Highlights
- Fort Collins has 54.0% less rainy days than Rochester.
- Fort Collins has 31.7% more Sunny Days than Rochester.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Fort Collins scores 10.8% better than Rochester
 Rochester, MNFort Collins, COUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock1638
 Snowfall48  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock90106
 Sunny180  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock8786
 Avg. Jan. Low5  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock7.27
 UV Index3.2  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock50032443
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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Reviews for Fort Collins    71 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Moved my family here a few months ago and have been so disappointed. Housing is dismal - you get low quality and almost nothing for what you’re paying. The house we’re  More

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Over 4 years ago

There is a high cost of living in all of Colorado, and there is a train that runs through the town a honks its horn for about 5 min straight which is very annoying  More

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My family established our home in Larimer County in 1973; this area, Fort Collins, was a quaint, western-ish town we loved to visit. So I’ve visited FoCo multiple times  More

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