Provo, Utah climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Provo each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 95°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 24°F. The most precipitation falls in May (2.01 in), the least in July (0.51 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

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When is the best weather to visit Provo?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (6).

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

When is the last frost in Provo?

In Provo, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 18 in half of years and after May 5 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 21 in half of years and before October 7 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

April 181 year in 10 after May 5; 9 in 10 after March 31

First autumn frost, half of years before

October 211 year in 10 before October 7; 9 in 10 before November 4

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 185 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 216 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 31 in half of springs and before November 1 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Provo in zones 6b to 7a across its 3 ZIP code areas (6b in 84604, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Provo's NOAA station is in zone 7b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 5°F (30 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.

Frost dates for every NOAA station in Utah · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each Provo ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Provo's 3 ZIP code areas run from zone 6b to 7a: 1 in 6b and 2 in 7a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Provo?

In a normal year in Provo, 74 days a year reach 90°F (9 of them 100°F or more), 111 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 93 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

74a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

9a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

111a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

13high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

93a normal year

Days with 1 inch of snow or more

16a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1916) is 108°F, on July 13, 2002; the lowest is −20°F, on January 21, 1930.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 1983, with 37.54 in; the snowiest season is 1983–84, with 127.5 inches.

How sunny is Provo?

Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Provo, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (88%) and December the cloudiest (67%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 125th (with 50 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does Provo need?

A normal year in Provo brings 4,968 heating degree days, 8% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,205 cooling degree days, 33% more than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 3,665 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Provo been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 57.6°F, 3.0°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 54.6°F. 3 of the 4 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 43 complete years from 1982 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 7.6°F per century (+0.42°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Provo share this climate record?

2 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• Springville, UT36,027 people · 6 mi S
• Hobble Creek, UT158 people · 9 mi SE

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