- For other uses, see Salt Lake City (disambiguation).
The flag of Salt Lake City, Utah, is a horizontal bicolor of blue and white, with a depiction of a sego lily in the canton.
Symbolism[]
The white is for salt and the blue is for the Great Salt Lake for which the City is named. The Sego Lily is Utah's state flower, and it has three petals because Salt Lake City is the only state capital with a three-word name.
Other variations[]
On 6 May 2025, the city's mayor, Erin Mendenhall, proposed the adoption of three new variations of the city's flag, in addition to the traditional Sego Lily Flag to most accurately reflect the values of the city and its residents. The Salt Lake City Council unanimously adopted the flags by an ordinance at a formal meeting. Like with Boise, which passed a similar resolution adopting two new official city flags on the same day, this came after the state ordered a ban on LGBTQ+ pride flags in government buildings and schools in March 2025.
Sego Celebration Flag[]
The Sego Celebration Flag is a version of the Juneteenth flag with a depiction of a sego lily in the canton.
Symbolism[]
The flag represents the history of Juneteenth, the city's Black and African American residents, and its pride in them.
The flag combines the sego lily's beauty and resilience with that of the iconic bursting star representing freedom; the arc, representing a new horizon of opportunity for Black Americans; and red, symbolizing the blood shed by those who were enslaved. Its united symbols represent the city's values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the celebration of Black excellence.
Sego Belonging Flag[]
The Sego Belonging Flag is a version of Daniel Quasar's Progress Pride Flag with a depiction of a sego lily in the canton.
Symbolism[]
The flag represents the city's LGBTQIA residents, as well as the broader city's acceptance and love of the community.
The flag combines the beauty and resilience communicated by the sego lily, with that of the rainbow, which represents beauty and diversity of the community, and the arrow of black, brown, light blue, pink, and white, which represents marginalized communities and forward progress.
Sego Visibility Flag[]
The Sego Visibility Flag is a version of the transgender flag with a depiction of a sego lily in the canton.
Symbolism[]
The flag symbolizes the city's transgender community and its commitment to seeing and celebrating them.
The flag combines the sego lily as an emblem of beauty and resilience, with pink and blue stripes used to represent men and women, and the white stripe, which represents those who are nonbinary, intersex, transitioning, or otherwise gender nonconforming.
Historical flags[]
Former flag (2006-2020)[]
The previous flag was a horizontal bicolor of blue and green and shows a simplified city skyline with a stylized illustration of the Wasatch Mountains as a backdrop. The words "Salt Lake City" are stitched below the skyline. The flag was adopted in 2006.
First flag (1969-2006)[]
The first flag of the city is just the city's coat of arms in a white background. It was adopted on 23 September 1969.
Symbolism[]
The beehive refers to Utah’s nickname, “The Beehive State”. The scene suggests the arrival of the Mormon pioneers at the Great Salt Lake in 1847, when their leader, Brigham Young, said, “This is the place”, indicating where they would settle and found the city. The seagulls, the state bird, recall the seemingly miraculous arrival of a flock of seagulls early in the state’s history to devour a plague of crickets (Mormon grasshoppers) that had threatened the new settlers’ crops.
2004 NAVA survey[]
It ranked 99th on the 2004 NAVA city flag survey, with a score of 3.47 out of 10, behind Greensboro, and ahead of Stockton.
Flag Redesigns[]
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