Salt Lake City is not one of those places where the weather stays constant (like lucky San Diego, for example), but it's not subject to too many weather extremes like tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards or killer heat waves. Salt Lake City's most prominent weather extreme is extreme dryness, but extreme heat cold, rain, snow and wind are also possible.
Here are some of Salt Lake City's weather extremes, plus record highs, lows and precipitation totals for each month of the year:
All-Time Records
- Highest temperature: 107 degrees, July 13, 2002
- Lowest temperature: -30 degrees, Feb. 9, 1933
- Most precipitation in 24 hours: 2.41 inches, April 22-23, 1957
- Most precipitation in one year: 24.26 inches, 1983
- Least precipitation in one year: 8.7 inches, 1979
- Greatest snowfall in 24 hours: 18.4 inches, Oct. 17-18, 1984
- Greatest snowfall in one month: 50.3 inches, 1993
- Greatest snowfall in one season: 117.3 inches, 1951-52
- Least snowfall in one season: 16.6 inches, 1933-34
- Strongest wind gust: 94 mph, June 3, 1963
January
Extreme high: 63 degrees, Jan. 31, 2003
Extreme low: -21.7 degrees, Jan. 25, 1949
Max. Precipitation: 3.23 inches, 1993
February
Extreme high: 68.5 degrees, Jan. 18, 1986
Extreme low: -30 degrees, Feb. 9, 1933
Max. Precipitation: 4.89 inches, 1998
March
Extreme high: 77.9 degrees, March 24, 1956
Extreme low: 1.8 degrees, March 22, 1936
Max. Precipitation: 3.97 inches, 1998
April
Extreme high: 89 degrees, April 29, 2007
Extreme low: 14.2 degrees, April 2, 1936
Max. Precipitation: 4.9 inches, 1944
May
Extreme high: 99 degrees, May 28, 2003
Extreme low: 25.4 degrees, May 6, 1965
Max. Precipitation: 4.76 inches, 1977
June
Extreme high: 103.5 degrees, June 29, 1979
Extreme low: 34.8 degrees, June 7, 1962
Max. Precipitation: 3.84 inches, 1998
July
Extreme high: 107 degrees, July 13, 2002
Extreme low: 40 degrees, July 1, 1968
Max. Precipitation: 2.57 inches, 1982
August
Extreme high: 106.1 degrees, Aug. 4, 1994
Extreme low: 36.6 degrees, Aug. 31, 1965
Max. Precipitation: 3.66 inches, 1968
September
Extreme high: 100 degrees, Sept. 8, 1979
Extreme low: 27 degrees, Sept. 18, 1965
Max. Precipitation: 7.04 inches, 1982
October
Extreme high: 88.6 degrees, Oct. 3, 1963
Extreme low: 16.1 degrees, Oct. 30, 1971
Max. Precipitation: 3.9 inches, 1981
November
Extreme high: 75 degrees, Nov. 6, 1999
Extreme low: -13.6 degrees, Nov. 16, 1955
Max. Precipitation: 3.34 inches, 2001
December
Extreme high: 68.5 degrees, Dec. 1, 1995
Extreme low: -21.4 degrees, Dec. 13, 1932
Max. Precipitation: 4.37 inches, 1983
