Austin

Austin Facts

Capital city of the State of Texas

Located 75 mi northwest of San Antonio

Population (within city limits): 710 k people (2006)

Area: 250 mi²

Fourth largest city in Texas

Austin-San Marcos metropolitan area population: 1.3 M people

Economic bases:

Government, and university education (specifically, the state agencies that come with being the capital city, and, of course, The University of Texas)
High-tech manufacturing (particularly chip manufacturing — Austin has a dozen or so semiconductor "fabs")
Software and information services

Famous for:

State capitol
UT
Live music
The bats
"Laid-backness" — the town's unofficial motto is "Keep Austin Weird"

Climate

*Source: U.S. National Weather Service 1971-2000 Daily Climate Normals for Austin City*
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
Avg. daily high	60.3	65.1	72.5	78.9	84.8	90.9	95.0	95.6	90.1	81.4	70.1	62.3	78.9
Avg. daily low	40.0	44.0	50.9	57.6	65.4	71.1	73.4	73.3	68.8	59.8	49.3	41.9	58.0
Average rainfall	1.89	1.99	2.14	2.51	5.03	3.81	1.97	2.31	2.91	3.97	2.68	2.44	33.65

On average, it snows one day every 2.3 years in Austin.

U.S. National Weather Service Austin Climate Narrative

Flying to Austin

IATA airport code: AUS, ICAO airport code: KAUS

Airlines serving AUS:

Southwest Airlines
American Airlines (including Trans States)
United Airlines (including SkyWest, Shuttle America, ExpressJet, GoJet, and Mesa)
Delta Air Lines (including SkyWest Airlines, Shuttle America, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, and Pinnacle)
JetBlue Airways
U.S. Airways (including Mesa)
Frontier Airlines
Virgin America
British Airways
Alaska Airlines
Allegiant Air
Aeromar

The airport is convenient to town, new, not giant, but big enough to get you most places conveniently. The Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau answers the question "How far is it from the airport to downtown?" with "It’s a mere seven and a half miles, less than 15 minutes drive time (or about four songs’ worth)."

"Gee-whiz" Trivia

Third fastest growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006
#1 Best Big City in "Best Places to Live" (Money magazine 2006)
"Greenest City in America" (MSN)
America's #1 College Town (the Travel Channel)
5th safest city of cities of 500,000 or more population (Morgan Quitno Press)
#2 on Orbitz.com’s list of the Top Ten Fastest Growing Wine Regions.
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport was named Best Domestic Airport at the 2006 Airports Council International Airport Service Quality Awards
#2 on Prevention Magazine’s list of the "top ten cities for taking a stroll"
The most wired city in the nation (www.forrester.com, July 2005)

More Austin Info

Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau: https://www.austintexas.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas
About.com articles on Austin: http://austin.about.com/