Des Plaines, IL Weather Forecast
Cook County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Des Plaines, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Des Plaines, IL at a glance
Des Plaines is home to about 58,010 people in Cook County, across 14 square miles. It ranks 20th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Mount Prospect, 3 miles away.
- County
- Cook County
- Population
- 58,010 2023 est.
- Land area
- 14 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,074
- Forecast point
- 42.0344°N, 87.9011°W
How well can the network see Des Plaines?
The nearest Doppler radar is KLOT (Chicago, IL), to the SSW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,900 ft above Des Plaines. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Des Plaines show up clearly. Des Plaines is closer to its radar than 69% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KORD (Chicago/O'Hare Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Des Plaines
- Mount Prospect, IL3 mi
- Park Ridge, IL3 mi
- Rosemont, IL3 mi
- Niles, IL5 mi
- Prospect Heights, IL5 mi
- Elk Grove Village, IL5 mi
- Glenview, IL5 mi
- Schiller Park, IL5 mi
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