Austin’s climate is characterised by its hot summers & mild winters – basically a humid subtropical climate, receiving 33.6 inches of rain per year, which mostly falls in the spring. Summer is typically hot and humid, with average temperatures above 90 degrees, and temperatures above 100 degrees not uncommon. The highest temperature recorded was in the year 2000 at Camp Mabry – 112 Fahrenheit! Winter offers a nice break in the heat with an average high of 62 degrees in December, 60 degrees in January, and 65 degrees in February. Austin averages 88 days in which the temperature falls below 45 degrees Fahrenheit

The University of Texas at Austin graduates thousands of students each year which provides a steady source of young, talented, and driven employees to Austin’s Job Market. The Austin Texas Real Estate Market is much more affordable than Silicon Valley, which has attracted many large technology based companies to place their headquarters, or a large presence, in Austin Texas. Austin’s largest employers include The University of Texas, the State of Texas, SETON Healthcare, IBM, Freescale Semiconducter, and, of course, Dell. Other high tech companies in Austin include Vignette, Applied Materials, Intel, Cirrus Logic, Apple Computer, AMD, National Instruments, Silicon Laboratories, Sun Microsystems, and Motive Inc. Samsung recently completed construction of a $3.5b chip manufacturing plant that brought more than 900 jobs to Northeast Austin.