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Salt Lake City, Utah, 19,477 students in 40 schools

Salt Lake City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Salt Lake City, measured against Salt Lake City's own big snow morning of 6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Salt Lake City close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake City playbook

How Salt Lake City calls a snow day

How families hear

By social media, the district website, email, phone call and text message.

“Please look for notifications on our social media (Facebook and Instagram), on the district website, and in your email. We may also send phone calls and text messages to our families.”
Winter Weather Guidelines

1 built in snow day

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “Emergency Make Up Day”.

“Emergency Make Up Day May 28, 2027”
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Remote learning days

Salt Lake City has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“If severe weather conditions force a delayed start to school or a switch to an emergency remote learning day, the district will inform parents as early in the morning as possible.”
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Making up a lost day

One emergency make up day on the calendar, May 28, 2027.

“Emergency Make Up Day May 28, 2027”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 18, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 27, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“They gather information from the Utah Department of Transportation, the National Weather Service, and other sources before making a recommendation to the Superintendent on whether we should delay school start times or opt for another alternative.”
Board policy

Read from Salt Lake City’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is slcschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Salt Lake City’s snow record

90.4inches of snow a winter
9.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
5with 4 in or more
6 ina big snow morning in Salt Lake City: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.4school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 95% of the 41 Utah districts with a station record.

7.4Nov
18.6Dec
19Jan
18.7Feb
17.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 17.5 in on February 3, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 165.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.1 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The Utah rule

How Utah counts a lost day

Utah requires at least 180 school days of educational services. No fixed count; a district that closes for snow and would fall short of 180 days can ask the State Superintendent for a waiver, granted without Board approval if it built contingency days into its calendar.

The Utah rules in the agency’s own words, and every Utah district

Next door

Districts near Salt Lake City

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Granite School DistrictSalt Lake City51.4 in2.4
Murray School DistrictMurray51.4 in2.4
Jordan School DistrictWest Jordan42.4 in21
Canyons School DistrictSandy55.2 in2.8
Davis School DistrictFarmington35.3 in0.7
Morgan School DistrictMorgan65.1 in3.3
The schools

40 schools

Every school in Salt Lake City follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • West High
  • Highland High
  • East High
  • Horizonte Instruction & Training Center
  • Innovations High School
  • Salt Lake Technology Center
  • Sky View Academy

Middle

  • Glendale Middle
  • Northwest Middle
  • Clayton Middle
  • Hillside Middle
  • Salt Lake Center for Science Education Bryant

Elementary

  • Mountain View School
  • Highland Park School
  • Whittier School
  • Emerson School
  • Dilworth School
  • Bonneville School
  • Uintah School
  • Meadowlark School
  • North Star School
  • Liberty School
  • Edison School
  • Beacon Heights School
  • Escalante School
  • Nibley Park School
  • Backman School
  • Mary W. Jackson School
  • Wasatch School
  • Washington School
  • Indian Hills School
  • Hawthorne School
  • Ensign School
  • Rose Park School
  • Franklin School
  • Parkview School
  • Newman School
  • Riley School
  • M. Lynn Bennion School

Other schools

  • Salt Lake Head Start
Questions

Salt Lake City snow day questions

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