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Elko, NV vs Boise City, ID

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- Boise City has 21.5% more rainy days than Elko.
- Boise City has 10.8% less Sunny Days than Elko.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Boise City scores 7.4% better than Elko
 Elko, NVBoise City, IDUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock1338
 Snowfall39  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock87106
 Sunny231  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock9286
 Avg. Jan. Low12  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock7.37
 UV Index4.1  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock27002443
Reviews for Elko    4 Reviews

Elko is like all small Nevada towns - limited in many things and the only change as far as the eye can see are over priced housing starts, drugs and crime. I really like  More

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Over 16 years ago

Spent my teen years in Elko & my parents still live there. It is extremely isolated. Life revolves around the mining industry. The old ranching families that live  More

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Over 17 years ago

Elko has an economy that is fairly typical of mining areas, that is, boom and bust. I've lived here for about 16 or so years. It's boomed tremendously twice and busted  More

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Reviews for Boise City    131 Reviews

The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately  More

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My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could  More

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Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise. But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep,  More

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