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Water temperature near Chicago today

Today's live sea temperatures at the 20 closest beaches to Chicago. Numbers update hourly and the ranking re-sorts by warmest swim right now.

Warmest beaches near Chicago right now

  1. 1
    Oak Street Beach
    Chicago, United States · Lake Michigan
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  2. 2
    Oak Street Beach
    Chicago, United States · Lake Michigan
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  3. 3
    North Avenue Beach
    Chicago, United States · Lake Michigan
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  4. 4
    North Avenue Beach
    Chicago, United States · Lake Michigan
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  5. 5
    Indiana Dunes Beach
    Chesterton, United States · Lake Michigan
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  6. 6
    Warren Dunes
    Sawyer, United States · Great Lakes
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  7. 7
    Silver Beach
    St Joseph, United States · Lake Michigan
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  8. 8
    Bradford Beach
    Milwaukee, United States · Lake Michigan
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  9. 9
    Bradford Beach
    Milwaukee, United States · Lake Michigan
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  10. 10
    Oval Beach
    Saugatuck, United States · Lake Michigan
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  11. 11
    Oval Beach
    Saugatuck, United States · Lake Michigan
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  12. 12
    Holland State Park
    Holland, United States · Great Lakes
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  13. 13
    Grand Haven State Park
    Grand Haven, United States · Great Lakes
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  14. 14
    Grand Haven State
    Grand Haven, United States · Lake Michigan
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  15. 15
    Grand Haven Beach
    Grand Haven, United States · Lake Michigan
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  16. 16
    Pere Marquette Beach
    Muskegon, United States · Lake Michigan
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  17. 17
    Whitefish Dunes
    Sturgeon Bay, United States · Great Lakes
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  18. 18
    Sleeping Bear Dunes
    Empire, United States · Lake Michigan
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  19. 19
    Empire Beach
    Empire, United States · Great Lakes
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  20. 20
    Sleeping Bear Beach
    Empire, United States · Lake Michigan
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About this list

We compute great-circle distance from Chicago to every beach we track, take the closest, then poll Open-Meteo Marine for live sea-surface temperature, wave height and wind speed. If a grid cell does not return data we leave it blank — never a seasonal estimate.

Quick answers

What is the sea temperature near Chicago today?
Today the warmest live sea temperature near Chicago is —. Other beaches in the list are sorted from warmest to coolest.
How fresh is this data?
Open-Meteo Marine updates each grid cell hourly. Our snapshot refreshes on the same hourly cadence.
Where does the data come from?
Open-Meteo Marine — a free, no-key public marine forecast API based on national models (DWD, NOAA, MetOffice).