Nestled in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, Priddis sits at an elevation of 1,160 metres (3,810 feet) within Foothills County, Alberta. The hamlet lies southwest of the intersection of the Cowboy Trail (Highway 22) and Highway 22X, placing it roughly 10 kilometres west of Calgary’s city limits. It falls within Census Division No. 6 and is part of the federal riding of Macleod.
The community takes its name from Charles Priddis, who homesteaded along Fish Creek in 1886, making the area one of the earlier settled corners of the Alberta foothills. Today, Priddis remains a small and quietly rural hamlet, with a population recorded at 79 residents in a 2003 municipal census carried out by Foothills County.