2025 Compare Cities Climate:
Sarasota, FL vs Richmond, VA

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Highlights
- Richmond has 20.9% less rainy days than Sarasota.
- Richmond has 16.3% less Sunny Days than Sarasota.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Richmond scores 7.4% better than Sarasota
 Sarasota, FLRichmond, VAUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock4438
 Snowfall0  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock112106
 Sunny251  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock9086
 Avg. Jan. Low51  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock7.37
 UV Index6.7  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock2102443
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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Reviews for Richmond    109 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Lived here for a year and it’s not perfect but it’s constantly improving now (areas redevloped, more businesses, job growth). Cost of living is great compared to  More

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Over 4 years ago

We love Richmond so much that when we talk about where we'd like to live if we could live anywhere in the US, we always come back to RVA. We live in the city proper  More

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Over 4 years ago

I'm an out-of-towner but am coming up on 1 year in Richmond. I would summarize it this way: the best thing and the worst thing about Richmond is its location. I'll  More

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