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    When is the first snow in Utah?

    In Utah, Salt Lake City’s first measurable snow usually lands around November 5.

    Utah’s first snow lands in early November, and the ski crowd treats it like a public holiday.
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    That makes Utah number 9 of the 36 states we track, earliest first.

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    Snow in the next 5 days?

    • No. There’s no snow in the Salt Lake City forecast for the next 5 days.

    Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.

    First snow, city by city

    CityUsually around8 winters in 10Snow a winter
    Salt Lake CityNovember 5October 20 to November 26about 51 in

    Usually around is the middle date across 30 winters. In 8 winters out of 10, the first snow lands inside the range.

    States on the same snow schedule

    • Iowa: from around November 7 in Sioux City
    • New York: from around November 3 in Binghamton
    • Ohio: from around November 7 in Youngstown

    Every state’s first snow, earliest first

    Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for each city’s official station, winters 1991 to 2020, via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.