Tip: If you’re driving, take care where you park if heavy snow is predicted – the snowploughs can end up half-burying your vehicle in snow, leaving you to dig your car out by hand. Even lowland Vienna continues to function pretty much as normal when it snows.įor example, the local authorities and house owners clear the sidewalks and roads remarkably quickly, and public transport is rarely troubled (though delays can occur). This is Austria, though, where babies emerge from maternity wards with skis strapped to their feet. These months are also when you’re most likely to encounter the occasional snow day. My perception is recent winters do seem to be milder than normal (cough…global warming…cough). The worst I’ve experienced in 25 years is around -15☌ (5☏), which was way back in the early 1990s.
That was another unusually warm February and the unofficial 2022 numbers suggest the trend continues.
The coldest months are December to February, when some days can see temperatures struggle to get much above 0☌ (32☏).Īverage afternoon temperatures in February 2021 were just under 6☌ (42.8☏), for example, and we had several days when temperatures managed to drop below zero at some point.