Photo: Jean-Philippe Boulet · CC BY 3.0The climate in Austin sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
A typical July afternoon reaches 25.7°C, a January night drops to −14.9°C, and 1,015 mm of rain and snow falls in a year. August is the wettest month, February the driest. Its January nights bite harder than in 71% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 167 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
Borrowed figures: Austin has no normals station, so these come from Lennoxville, 36 km east.
A year in Austin at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Austin’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Austin feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
167 frost days and 115 days above 20°C a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 23 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
1,015 mm of precipitation in a typical year
On about 147 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 262 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in January (about 59 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Lennoxville publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Granby, 38 km away.
Heating a home in Austin
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing.
Living with Austin’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 41 days in a normal year.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 44 a year.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Austin’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Lennoxville
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Lennoxville.
| Distance from the town | 36 km east |
| Station altitude | 181 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Granby, 38 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.9°C |
| Average wind | 10.1 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Granby, 38 km |
How Austin compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Austin’s own would show the same figures).
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Lennoxville | 25.7°C | −14.9°C | 1,015 mm |
| Eastman 5.4 km · Granby | 25.6°C about the same | −13.4°C 1.5°C milder | 1,226 mm |
| Magog 8.7 km · Lennoxville | 25.7°C about the same | −14.9°C about the same | 1,015 mm |
| Bolton-Est 9.1 km · Sutton | 25.3°C about the same | −13.5°C 1.4°C milder | 1,340 mm |
| Stanstead 18 km · Coaticook | 24.7°C 1.0°C cooler | −13.9°C 1.0°C milder | 1,217 mm |
Austin weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −4.1°C | −14.9°C | −9.5°C | 76 mm | 59 cm |
| February | −2.3°C | −14.3°C | −8.3°C | 66 mm | 58 cm |
| March | 3.1°C | −8.3°C | −2.6°C | 68 mm | 48 cm |
| April | 10.8°C | −0.6°C | 5.1°C | 82 mm | 17 cm |
| May | 18.6°C | 5.7°C | 12.2°C | 85 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 23.3°C | 11.0°C | 17.2°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.7°C | 13.6°C | 19.7°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.8°C | 12.7°C | 18.7°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.7°C | 8.2°C | 14.5°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.0°C | 2.5°C | 7.7°C | 91 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 6.2°C | −2.8°C | 1.7°C | 70 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −0.7°C | −9.6°C | −5.2°C | 75 mm | 54 cm |
| Year | 11.6°C | 0.3°C | 5.9°C | 1,015 mm | 262 cm |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.1°C; August the least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −32.0°C (1992) and 25.8°C (2012), the widest span of any month.
Where Austin’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Lennoxville: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- Not on this page: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Austin’s climate
How warm does Austin get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 25.7°C.
How cold does Austin get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −14.9°C.
How much rain and snow does Austin get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 1,015 mm; the range runs from 66 mm in February to 104 mm in August.
Are these figures for Austin itself?
They describe Lennoxville, the nearest normals location, rather than Austin itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Austin →
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).