‹ Salt Lake City weather by month

Typical August weather

Salt Lake City

Utah · August

Heat holds, with the odd monsoon burst for drama.

92° days
67° nights

about 2 rainy days · 14 hours of daylight

What to pack

What August feels like

August brings the tail of the monsoon up from the south: brief violent downpours that flood the gutters and are gone inside twenty minutes. It is also when the Great Salt Lake is at its lowest and dustiest, which the whole valley has learned to keep an eye on.

Real rain shows up about 2 days all month; the rest stay dry. The air runs dry — whatever the thermometer says, it wears easy. Most afternoons push past 90°.

The numbers

Typical high92°
Typical low67°
Days with real rain2
Total rain0.6 in
Humiditydry air
Sunrise / sunset (mid-month)6:38 am / 8:25 pm

How August compares

See the whole year in Salt Lake City ›