SKY · MILKY WAY · USA
Can You See the Milky Way from Salt Lake City?
Good news for Salt Lake City: tonight the galactic core climbs to about 20° above the southern horizon in a dark sky. With dark skies and no Moon, the bright heart of the Milky Way is on show.
Core altitude computed for Salt Lake City (40.8°, -111.9°) during tonight's dark hours.
Milky Way season & the Moon for Salt Lake City
A modest Moon — bright planets and constellations are fine, faint detail less so.
The Milky Way is faint and easily lost to light pollution and moonlight. Even when the core is high, you need a genuinely dark sky — well away from city lights — and ideally a night near the new Moon to see it well from Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City right now
A dark, cloudless sky is everything for the Milky Way — a quick check of tonight's cloud cover for Salt Lake Citytells you whether it's worth the trip out of town.
More sky over Salt Lake City
SEE IT ON THE MAP
The live sky map shows the day/night line over Salt Lake City in real time.