Climate and Setting Climate and Setting Located on a hilltop above historic downtown Easton, population 30,000, Lafayette College is a safe residential community. Housing is guaranteed to all students throughout their Lafayette careers. All first-year students live in one of the college residence halls. International students will most likely have a roommate from the United States. Most halls have lounges, laundry facilities, and a kitchen.
All housing is within a few minutes walk of the academic and administrative buildings.
Lafayette is located in the southeastern section of Pennsylvania, a state in the mid-Atlantic portion of the United States, which has four distinct seasons. When you arrive at Lafayette in late August, the summer is ending. The nights will begin to get cool in October and the leaves on the trees will start turning wonderful colors. By early December, winter will surely have settled in and it may begin to snow. Winter will begin to break in late March.