Weather in Park City in October

A good month. October is a solid month to be in Park City. Highs sit at 13.6 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

October ranks 6 of 12 in Park City: past the worst of the year but short of June, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 8 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 13.6 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 13 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 27.4 °C and the coldest night fell to -15.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 34 mm — roughly 81% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 3 mm in the driest year against 145 mm in the wettest, around an average of 42 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 1.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 58%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 8.3 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 7.6 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.2 hours of daylight, losing 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Park City's extremes of 15.1 and 9.3 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 39.6 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage. At 2141 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

October in Park City versus nearby

If Park City is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Salt Lake City is a better bet in October — 4.4 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Moab is a better bet in October — 8.3 °C warmer, 3 days less rain.

So: October is a compromise. June is 25 points better and is what Park City is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Park City

See all twelve months in Park City, or where else to go in October.