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Detroit weather

Michigan · 645,705 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:31

Raining now Air: Poor

22°

Mainly clear

Feels like 24°C

Wind

23 km/h

Gusts

36 km/h

Humidity

48 %

Pressure

1017 hPa

Clouds

24 %

Storm

Rise 08:02 Set 18:29 Day 10 h 27 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Mainly clear

23°22°

Feels like 25°

Wind ↑ W 23 km/h

Gusts 39 km/h

Humidity 47 %

💧 0.1 mm

Evening

Drizzle

19°16°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ WNW 18 km/h

Gusts 34 km/h

Humidity 70 %

💧 0.2 mm

17:00

23°

0.1mm

W 19

Detroit forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +8.0° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Detroit climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −7 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 27 °C.

Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −7 °C in January.

From 15 h 16 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 04 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 58 mm and 94 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 19 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−1 °C	−7 °C	68 mm
Feb	1 °C	−6 °C	58 mm
Mar	6 °C	−2 °C	67 mm
Apr	13 °C	5 °C	93 mm
May	20 °C	11 °C	94 mm
Jun	25 °C	16 °C	91 mm
Jul	28 °C	19 °C	82 mm
Aug	26 °C	18 °C	80 mm
Sep	23 °C	14 °C	70 mm
Oct	15 °C	8 °C	72 mm
Nov	8 °C	3 °C	72 mm
Dec	2 °C	−3 °C	66 mm
Whole year	14 °C	6 °C	910 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 42.33° N, 83.05° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Detroit: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.531µg/m³

PM1031µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Detroit

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Detroit, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Detroit

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 16:43 Set 08:24

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Detroit); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Detroit

Curious about the weather in Detroit on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Detroit weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Detroit, Michigan: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 22 °C (feels like 24 °C) and the wind blows at 23 km/h.

Expected range today: 13 °C to 23 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

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London 165 km 20°

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