Detroit, MI Weather Forecast
Wayne County, Michigan
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Detroit, 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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Detroit, MI at a glance
Detroit is home to about 633,218 people in Wayne County, across 139 square miles. It is the largest of 584 places in Michigan with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Highland Park, 2 miles away.
- County
- Wayne County
- Population
- 633,218 2023 est.
- Land area
- 139 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,564
- Forecast point
- 42.3830°N, 83.1022°W
How well can the network see Detroit?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDTX (Detroit, MI), to the NW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,700 ft above Detroit. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Detroit show up clearly. Detroit is closer to its radar than 72% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KDET (Detroit/C Young Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Detroit
- Highland Park, MI2 mi
- Hamtramck, MI3 mi
- Hazel Park, MI5 mi
- Ferndale, MI5 mi
- Pleasant Ridge, MI6 mi
- Oak Park, MI7 mi
- Dearborn, MI7 mi
- River Rouge, MI8 mi
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