TIME ZONE / LATITUDE / LONGITUDE
Salt Lake City, Utah is in the Mountain Time Zone and follows Daylight Savings Time. For International visitors, we are 2 hours behind New York, so if it's 8am there, it's 6am here, and 1 hour ahead of the West Coast, California time.
Salt Lake City's Latitude and Longitude
Latitude: 40 degrees, 47 minutes north.
Longitude: 111 degrees, 57 minutes west.
POPULATION
Salt Lake City Metro: 170,000
Salt Lake Area: 1.2 million
Wasatch Front: 1.8 million
The Wasatch Front is roughly 80 miles long with Ogden approximately 40 miles north of the Salt Lake Valley and Provo approximately 40 miles south of the Salt Lake Valley.
Utah: 2.7 million
ELEVATION
Salt Lake City: 4330 feet / 1320 meters
Snowbird: 8100 feet / 2469 meters
CLIMATE
Salt Lake City enjoys four separate seasons.
Summer is usually warm, dry, sunny with low humidity.
Fall starts to bring the colors out with cooler temperatures.
Winter usually enjoys above freezing temperatures during the day with powdery snow in the mountains. Cold after dusk.
Spring is usually nice enough for a round of golf in the valley, with skiing in the mountains.
WEATHER AVERAGES (temp. F. )
|
Month |
High |
Low |
|
Jan |
36 |
19 |
|
Feb |
42 |
24 |
|
Mar |
51 |
28 |
|
Apr |
61 |
36 |
|
May |
72 |
46 |
|
Jun |
84 |
53 |
|
Jul |
93 |
61 |
|
Aug |
91 |
59 |
|
Sep |
80 |
51 |
|
Oct |
66 |
40 |
|
Nov |
50 |
28 |
|
Dec |
38 |
21 |
HOW TO DRESS
We, like you, dress accordingly to the weather and our preferences. Warm clothes for the winter, and shorts and sandals for the summer. Jeans are acceptable almost anywhere, even our nicest restaurants. Nicer clothes for things like the Ballet, fine dining restaurants, and nightclubs.