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Typical May weather

Salt Lake City

Utah · May

Warm, bright, and the canyons finally open all the way.

73° days
50° nights

about 5 rainy days · 14½ hours of daylight

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What May feels like

May is when the foothill trails above the university dry out and the Bonneville Shoreline gets busy in the evenings. The Saturday market at Pioneer Park opens for the season, and the peaks stay white above a valley that has gone completely green.

Expect about 5 days with real rain — enough to notice, not enough to plan around. The air runs dry — whatever the thermometer says, it wears easy.

The numbers

Typical high73°
Typical low50°
Days with real rain5
Total rain1.8 in
Humiditydry air
Sunrise / sunset (mid-month)6:09 am / 8:37 pm

How May compares

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