Pontiac, MI Weather Forecast
Oakland County, Michigan
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Pontiac, 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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Pontiac, MI at a glance
Pontiac is home to about 61,689 people in Oakland County, across 20 square miles. It ranks 24th by population of 584 places in Michigan with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Auburn Hills, 3 miles away.
- County
- Oakland County
- Population
- 61,689 2023 est.
- Land area
- 20 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,102
- Forecast point
- 42.6492°N, 83.2874°W
How well can the network see Pontiac?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDTX (Detroit, MI), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 510 ft above Pontiac. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Pontiac show up clearly. Pontiac is closer to its radar than 95% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KPTK (Pontiac/Oakland Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Pontiac
- Auburn Hills, MI3 mi
- Keego Harbor, MI4 mi
- Bloomfield, MI5 mi
- Bloomfield Hills, MI5 mi
- Waterford, MI5 mi
- Rochester Hills, MI7 mi
- Orion, MI8 mi
- West Bloomfield, MI8 mi
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