Climate and average weather in Tooele

In Tooele, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early September to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tooele typically varies from 20°F to 90°F, and is rarely below 6°F or above 98°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Tooele for warm-weather activities are from mid May to late June and early September to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
90°
Coldest
Jan
20°
Wettest
Apr
2.6 in
Driest
Aug
0.7 in
Rain / yr
19.2 in
91 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
5,043 ft
40.5°N
Clearest
Sep
31% cloud

Tooele is city in and county seat of Tooele County, Utah, United States.

Density
596/km²
people per km²
Founded
1851

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Tooele weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early September to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Tooele, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.4 months, from June 5 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 77°F. The hottest month of the year in Tooele is July, with an average high of 90°F and low of 64°F.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 21 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 45°F. The coldest month of the year in Tooele is January, with an average low of 20°F and high of 35°F.

Days typically run about 21°F warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 26°F) in July.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan3520
Feb4124
Mar5232
Apr5938
May6947
Jun8156
Jul9064
Aug8963
Sep7853
Oct6341
Nov4729
Dec3621

How hot and cold Tooele really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Tooele feels like about 91°F (around July 17). About 37 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about 13°F (around December 28), with roughly 159 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 32°F) 21 of them bitterly cold — worst in December.

20°40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan35351420
Feb41411924
Mar52522732
Apr59593538
May70694547
Jun81815656
Jul90906464
Aug88896363
Sep78785353
Oct63633841
Nov47472529
Dec36361521

Average hourly temperature in Tooele

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 90°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 20°F.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Tooele weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan35° / 20°1.78.67.59.40.0
Feb41° / 24°1.68.1610.40.3
Mar52° / 32°1.99.65.311.72.8
Apr59° / 38°2.611.83.1134.4
May69° / 47°2.410.50.314.26.5
Jun81° / 56°1.25.4014.87.0
Jul90° / 64°0.84.7014.64.5
Aug89° / 63°0.74.7013.65.1
Sep78° / 53°1.55.2012.37.8
Oct63° / 41°1.66.8110.96.1
Nov47° / 29°1.47.84.79.71.8
Dec36° / 21°1.687.19.20.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Tooele gets about 19.2 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.0 months, from around Nov 6 to Jun 6, peaking in April at about 40% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 28.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 2.6 in over about 12 wet days; August is the driest, with 0.7 in. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 18 · 40%Jun 28 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan279
Feb298
Mar3110
Apr3912
May3411
Jun195
Jul155
Aug165
Sep185
Oct217
Nov268
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tooele collects about 19.2 in of rain across 91 wet days — roughly 1.6 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 2.6 in, while August is the driest at just 0.7 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

00.511.522.53JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1.71.61.92.62.41.20.80.71.51.61.41.6
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1.798
Feb1.686
Mar1.9105
Apr2.6123
May2.4110
Jun1.250
Jul0.850
Aug0.750
Sep1.550
Oct1.671
Nov1.485
Dec1.687

Snow in Tooele

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Tooele averages about 35 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 14 to May 8 — about 6.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 13 in of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 55 in of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 9
Snow daysSnowfall (in)
Jan813
Feb612
Mar56
Apr35
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct11
Nov56
Dec712

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Tooele, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 4 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around November 2. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 3 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around June 3. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 16 · 84%Jan 5 · 42%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4555
Feb4951
Mar4852
Apr4951
May5446
Jun7327
Jul8218
Aug8317
Sep8020
Oct7030
Nov5644
Dec4852

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 13, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.47:565:21
Feb10.47:325:56
Mar11.76:496:29
Apr13.05:577:02
May14.25:187:33
Jun14.85:037:56
Jul14.65:167:54
Aug13.65:457:22
Sep12.36:166:31
Oct10.96:475:41
Nov9.77:235:06
Dec9.27:524:59

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Tooele averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Jun 4 to Oct 30. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 9 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the September peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 1420 daysJan 78 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul18Bright
Aug19Bright
Sep19Bright
Oct17Bright
Nov11Mixed
Dec10Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Tooele, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May10000
Jun10000
Jul9351
Aug9550
Sep9820
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Tooele is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 mphcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 9 · 5 mphJan 23 · 4 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Tooele

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Tooele throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early October, Tooele is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Tooele for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid May to late June and again from early September to mid October, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 20 · 8.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.3poor
Mar2.7poor
Apr4.5fair
May6.5good
Jun6.9good
Jul4.6fair
Aug5.2fair
Sep7.7ideal
Oct6.1good
Nov1.8poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Tooele for hot-weather activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 25 · 8.2

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Tooele, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 90°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 35°F), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Tooele sees daytime highs around 90°F and nights near 64°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tooele by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Tooele peaks around June 23 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 23UV 10Dec 18UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr5Moderate
May7Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Tooele

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb20
Mar50
Apr5.50
May7.54
Jun96
Jul8.56
Aug85
Sep6.53
Oct50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Tooele typically lasts about 237 days, from around March 16 to November 7 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 22 to October 16.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonJan 2910%Mar 1650%Apr 2290%Oct 1690%Nov 750%Dec 1610%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan931
Feb1628
Mar4931
Apr8322
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8714
Nov3730
Dec1131

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Tooele banks about 3,003 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr14
May256
Jun554
Jul845
Aug794
Sep458
Oct83
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Tooele receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 8.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 25. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 278.2 kWhDec 172.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar5.0Bright
Apr6.2Intense
May7.2Intense
Jun8.1Intense
Jul7.9Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep5.7Bright
Oct4.1Bright
Nov2.7Moderate
Dec2.2Moderate

Where is Tooele?

Tooele sits at 40.5°N, 112.3°W, 5,043 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Herriman, 14 mi away.

Topography around Tooele

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Tooele.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Tooele has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,535 ft around an average of 5,118 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 6,306 ft; within 50 miles, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 7,346 ft.

The land around Tooele is covered by grassland (39%) and artificial surfaces (37%) within 2 miles, grassland (42%), shrubs (23%) and trees (21%) within 10 miles, and grassland (42%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
1,535 ft
10 miles
6,306 ft
50 miles
7,346 ft
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Herriman 14 mi · Magna 16 mi · Kearns 18 mi · South Jordan Heights 19 mi · Riverton 19 mi · West Valley City 19 mi · South Jordan 19 mi · West Jordan 20 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Tooele (40.5308°, -112.2983°, elevation 5,043 ft), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).