Austin, OR Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Austin's primary NOAA station, AUSTIN 3 S.
The climate verdict for Austin
Austin, Oregon has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 43°F. July is the warmest month at 63°F and January the coldest at 25°F.
- 43°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 20.8"
- yearly precipitation total
Austin: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00350356 · Austin, OR 43°F mean · 20.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 43°F
- RANK-COOL #755
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ E Hawley
- PRCP-DRY 20.8"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 8,244 HDD
- STN-1 USC00350356
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: E Hawley, MA (+ 0 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every OR station list.
- Austin (this station) 43°F
- Hot Sugar City, ID 43°F
- Near E Hawley, MA 43°F
- Near Headquarters, ID 43°F
- Near Powell, ID 43°F
Climate Living Index · Austin
Austin: 17/100 · grade F
Austin publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Austin, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 20.8 in · 14.2 from 35 in | 50/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 42.6°F · 24.9° from 67.5°F | 11/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 223 calendar days | 4/100 · F |
Austin · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
Austin is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 24.8°F and warmest-month mean 63.3°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 63.3°F
- Coldest month
- 24.8°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Austin sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Austin's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 89%
- Among 6,861 stations, Austin sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 71%
- Austin's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 71%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Austin is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34°F (1°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 2.6" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 39°F (4°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.7" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 46°F (8°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 1.9" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 53°F (12°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 1.7" | 26.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 62°F (17°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.8" | 15.6 | 0.2 |
| June | 71°F (22°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.6" | 7.7 | 1.4 |
| July | 83°F (29°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.7" | 2.2 | 9.5 |
| August | 83°F (28°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.7" | 3.7 | 8.1 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 0.8" | 15.5 | 1.8 |
| October | 59°F (15°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.3" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 42°F (6°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 2.7" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 34°F (1°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 3.3" | 30.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 86°F around July 28, short of 90°F on every date, while 223 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 14°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 7, then returns to freezing around September 28, covering 223 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is December 10, when 49% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 16 at 13%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 120 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 28 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 42°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Austin.
Where Austin Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 223 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 42°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Austin earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
14.3 days with precipitation
11.8 days with precipitation
12.8 days with precipitation
11.9 days with precipitation
11.4 days with precipitation
9.2 days with precipitation
4.8 days with precipitation
3.8 days with precipitation
4.4 days with precipitation
7.1 days with precipitation
12.9 days with precipitation
14.7 days with precipitation
Austin's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 37% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 15%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows a 38.5°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 3.3"
- Driest month
- July, 0.7"
- Wettest three months
- December, November, January (41% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
Austin is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 119 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 33% of the calendar, and they carry 20.8" between them. At roughly 0.17 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is December at about 15 wet days; the driest is August at about 4.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,244
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
106
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Austin on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (43°F here).
- Alamosa, CO 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Baldwin, WI 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Boulder, MT 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Center, ND 43°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (20.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Ashley, ND 20.7" · 0.0" off
- Kennebec, SD 20.8" · 0.0" off
- Valentine, NE 20.8" · 0.0" off
- Napoleon, ND 20.7" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Austin's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Austin's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,244 annual heating degree days against 106 for cooling. Its 38.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Austin. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Austin's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 38.5°F. The annual average is 43°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Austin's 20.8 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Austin's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Austin, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Austin's primary station: AUSTIN 3 S (USC00350356). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Austin; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Austin comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.