The seat of Sonoma County is Santa Rosa. It is the fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay and the largest city in the Wine Country. This city of almost 158,000 residents is also part of the North Bay region, with its very prominent feature on the east called the Hood Mountains. Looking to the southeast Taylor Mountain and Sonoma Mountain can be seen.


Santa Rosa has mostly dry summers and cool, wet winters. Fog and low overcast clouds sometimes creep in from the Pacific Ocean in the summer nights and mornings. Average annual rainfall is 30.45 inches (773 mm), falling on 74 days annually. Measurable snowfall is rare in the lowlands, but light amounts of snowfall are experienced in the nearby mountains. This is not your expected sunny California weather.

Home and condo prices are slightly over the state average, so prices can be called decent comparing with the state figures. It is interesting to note that Forbes Magazine ranked the Santa Rosa metropolitan area 185th out of 200, on its 2007 list of Best Places for Business and Careers. It ranked second on the list five years prior. The ranking was downgraded because of an increase in the cost of doing business, and reduced job growth. Increases in the cost of living quarters are to be blamed for these. With reasonable house prices, moving to the cooler side of California here in Santa Rosa is made easier with the help of Santa Rosa moving companies.

Santa Rosa is a gateway to the Wine Country. With other attractions nearby such as: • Russian River Resort Area, the • Sonoma Coast along the Pacific Ocean, • Jack London State Historic Park • Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve and its majestic redwoods Horticulturist Luther Burbank’s statement “I firmly believe, from what I have seen that this is the chosen spot of all this earth as far as Nature is concerned" is proof that "The City Designed for Living."

If you have fallen for the charm that Santa Rosa has to offer, call Santa Rosa movers to relocate to a house in one of the most charming cities in the Wine Country.