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Kanab is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, on Kanab Creek just north of the Arizona state line.

The 2020 census counted 4,683 residents in Kanab, up from 4,312 in 2010, living in 1,815 households.

The area was first settled in 1864, when Fort Kanab was built on the east bank of Kanab Creek, and the town was founded in 1870 when ten Mormon families moved into the area under Jacob Hamblin.

Kanab is named for a Southern Paiute word meaning "place of the willows."

Kanab was incorporated in 1935.

In 1912 Kanab elected an all-woman town board, reported as the first in the country.

Locals call Kanab "Utah's Little Hollywood" because so many Westerns were filmed there, including Stagecoach (1939), El Dorado (1966), Planet of the Apes (1968), and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976).

A welcome sign calls the town "The Greatest Earth on Show," and Kanab sits in the "Grand Circle" of parks and monuments, centrally located among Bryce Canyon, Zion, the Grand Canyon's North Rim, Vermilion Cliffs, and Lake Powell.

The largest animal sanctuary in the United States, Best Friends Animal Society, is located near Kanab.

U.S. Routes 89 and 89A meet in the center of town, with US 89 leading 21 miles north to Orderville and 74 miles southeast to Page, Arizona.