Rainy days · Utah
How often does it rain in Salt Lake City?
Salt Lake City gets more wet winter days than summer ones, some of them snow in disguise.
Salt Lake City gets measurable rain or snow on about 91 days a year, adding up to about 15 inches.
November usually brings Salt Lake City about 8 wet days and 1.3 inches. The wettest month is usually April, with about 10 wet days, and the driest is July, with about 4 wet days. That makes Salt Lake City number 103 of the 129 US cities we track, rainiest first.
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Rainy days, month by month
| Month | Wet days | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| January | 10 | 1.4 |
| February | 9 | 1.3 |
| March | 9 | 1.8 |
| April | 10 | 2.1 |
| May | 9 | 1.8 |
| June | 5 | 0.9 |
| July | 4 | 0.5 |
| August | 5 | 0.6 |
| September | 5 | 1.1 |
| October | 7 | 1.3 |
| November | 8 | 1.3 |
| December | 10 | 1.4 |
Cities with about as many rainy days
- Helena, Montana: about 92 wet days a year
- Casper, Wyoming: about 91 wet days a year
- Boise, Idaho: about 89 wet days a year
Source: NOAA daily precipitation records for the Salt Lake City area, 1991 to 2020 (at least 30 complete years behind every month), via the Applied Climate Information System. A wet day here means at least a hundredth of an inch of rain or melted snow.