Typical installed price: Fixr's 2026 range for an awning window is $300 to $800; HomeGuide's runs wider, $400 to $2,000.
Survey average: This Old House homeowners paid about $1,644 per awning window, within a $600 to $2,500 spread.
Small utility awning or hopper: about $100 to $250 for a stock unit and $500 to $750 custom, before labor.
Lead time: 4 to 12 weeks for made-to-order units in one installer's 2024 update; about an hour per window to set.

Lowell Window Replacement matches your job with an independent replacement contractor for awning windows: a vent strip over the sink, a row under a fixed pane, a bathroom window with privacy glass, or an inward-tipping hopper. The referral is free, and you deal with the contractor directly from the first visit.

Awning Window Types and Where They Go

An awning window is hinged along the top and swings out from the bottom, usually on a crank or chain winder, with the screen on the inside. Open, the sash works like a small roof, so you can leave it cracked in a rainstorm. Awnings are smaller than most window styles, which is why they show up high on walls and in tight spots.

Wide white awning window hinged at the top and cranked open above a kitchen sink and faucet, morning light on the counter

Awnings Over a Sink or Counter

Over a kitchen sink, the window sits behind a deep counter and a faucet, and lifting a hung sash from there is awkward. An awning set high on that wall opens with a crank, and because the sash tips out from the bottom, it can stay open for air while it keeps rain off the sill.

Stock size: the cheapest option, but the opening has to match a standard size.
Custom size: for an old opening that doesn't, expect the custom price and the longer order time above.

Large fixed picture window with a row of two awning windows directly beneath it, both opened slightly, on a living room wall

Awnings Stacked Under a Picture Window

Installers often set an awning or a pair of them under a large fixed pane, so the room keeps the view and still gets air. Awnings can also sit beside double-hungs. The fixed glass, its sizes and its prices are on the picture windows page.

Small awning window set high on a white tiled bathroom wall, fitted with textured obscure glass that blurs the view outside

Bathroom Awnings With Obscure Glass

A bathroom awning can go high on the wall, above the sightline from the street or the house next door, and still open. Pair it with obscure glass and you get light without a view in. The bubble pattern, also called raindrop, is the one used most often in bathrooms. Glass near a tub or shower may also have to be tempered or laminated where the code calls for it.

Hopper Windows

A hopper is an awning turned upside down: the hinge is at the bottom and the top tips inward. Shut, the two look the same. Hoppers are common in basements because they can go in without a window well. Neither a hopper nor an awning opens wide enough to be used as an escape window. Prices for basement hoppers are on the basement windows page.

Installer seen from behind pressing a new white double-hung window into an old painted wood frame, with a level on the sill and shims and a caulk gun on a drop cloth

Why Lowell homeowners call Lowell Window Replacement

One independent window contractor gets your request
Ask for the HIC number: MA contracts must show it
Written contract on any job over $1,000
The call and the referral are free

Awning Window Replacement: What to Check

Where it swings
An open awning sticks out from the wall, so it can get in the way on a ground-floor walkway, porch or deck. This Old House suggests upper floors or spots where nobody walks past.
Sill height upstairs
An awning set low on a second- or third-floor wall can fall under the fall-protection rule. Ask whether the operator limits how far the sash opens.
Seal and hardware
A closed awning seals tightly, but its crank and hinges are moving parts that wear. Ask whether operator parts can be replaced on their own.
Original window type
Putting awnings where hung sashes used to be, on a front wall in a historic district, goes through Historic Board review.

See casement windows for the side-hinged version of the same crank-out design.

Awning Windows in Lowell, MA