Detroit Beach, Michigan Weather
Detroit Beach, Michigan — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Detroit Beach, Monroe County.
Full aviation weather for Detroit Beach is published on the Custer Airport (KTTF) page, 9 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 4 airfields within reach of Detroit Beach have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Detroit Beach: Toledo Suburban Airport (KDUH) 35 km · Toledo Executive Airport (KTDZ) 43 km · Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport (KTOL) 55 km
Conditions reported at KTTF describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Detroit Beach specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Detroit Beach, Michigan
Detroit Beach unfolds along the northwestern edge of Lake Erie, a stretch of shoreline where the water’s restless breath meets the land’s quiet repose. It lies 15.6 miles south-south-west of Brownstown, MI (from Brownstown, MI: bearing 192°T), and is situated 3.8 miles east-north-east of Monroe. Here, the terrain is a gentle descent, a gradual yielding to the lake’s vastness. Willow branches, heavy with moisture, weep toward the sandy shallows, their leaves a vibrant green against the pale, shifting grains. The air, even on a still day, carries a faint, persistent tang of brine and the earthy scent of reeds, a constant reminder of the great freshwater sea that defines this place. Gulls trace arcs against a sky that can shift from the pale, watery blue of morning to the bruised purples and oranges of evening, their cries a sharp counterpoint to the soft lapping of waves. The history of Detroit Beach is inextricably tied to the bounty and the challenges of its lakeside setting. Once a vital hub for fishing and later, for the burgeoning tourism industry drawn by its accessible shores, the local economy has seen its tides ebb and flow. The echoes of early settlements, of families who made their living from the lake’s generous, and sometimes unforgiving, embrace, can still be felt. The enduring appeal of Detroit Beach lies in its unpretentious beauty, a place where the rhythm of life is still largely dictated by the sun and the seasons, a quiet counterpoint to the distant hum of larger urban centers.
Live animated radar for Detroit Beach and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Detroit Beach, Monroe County, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 41.931156°N, 83.326875°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 48162 |
| Area Code | 313 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Detroit Beach, Michigan Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Detroit Beach, Michigan, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Detroit Beach includes coordinates 41.931156°N, 83.326875°W, situated in Monroe County. ZIP code 48162. Telephone area code: 313. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/Detroit).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
