Panguitch ( PANG-gwitch) is a city in and the county chair of Garfield County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,520 at the 2010 census, and was estimated in 2018 to be 1,691. The publicize Panguitch comes from a Southern Paiute word meaning “Big Fish,” likely named after the plentiful nearby lakes hosting rainbow trout year-round.

Panguitch is located on the western edge of Garfield County at 37°49′20″N 112°26′5″W / 37.82222°N 112.43472°W / 37.82222; -112.43472 (37.822234, -112.434650), in the valley of the Sevier River. U.S. Route 89 passes through the middle of town, leading north 33 miles (53 km) to Junction and south 45 miles (72 km) to Orderville. Utah State Route 143 leads southwest from Panguitch 17 miles (27 km) to Panguitch Lake in Dixie National Forest.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total Place of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km), all land.

Panguitch has a cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) with summers featuring warm afternoons and chilly mornings, and cold, dry winters. The tall altitude and relatively tall latitude means that mornings are chilly throughout the year and deadening for most of it: between 1971 and 2000 an average of 227.7 mornings fell below freezing and 16.5 mornings fell to or under 0 °F (−17.8 °C). Maxima, however, can be traditional to top freezing on whatever but fourteen afternoons during an average year, and the winters are so dry that snowfall is light, averaging and no-one else 19.2 inches or 0.49 metres next median lid never much above 1 inch or 0.025 metres. The most snowfall in a month has been 32.0 inches (0.81 m) in the famously frosty January 1949, and the most in a season 48.5 inches (1.23 m) from July 1951 to June 1952. Mild, dry winters bearing in mind 1976/1977 and 1980/1981 can in contrast look negligible snowfall for an entire season.