Water temperature near Chicago today
Today's live sea temperatures at the 24 closest beaches to Chicago. Numbers update hourly and the ranking re-sorts by warmest swim right now.
Warmest beaches near Chicago right now
- 1Oak Street BeachChicago, United States · Lake Michigan3 km—
- 2Oak Street BeachChicago, United States · Lake Michigan3 km—
- 3North Avenue BeachChicago, United States · Lake Michigan4 km—
- 4North Avenue BeachChicago, United States · Lake Michigan4 km—
- 5Indiana Dunes BeachChesterton, United States · Lake Michigan53 km—
- 6Warren Dunes State ParkSawyer, United States · Lake Michigan85 km—
- 7Warren DunesSawyer, United States · Great Lakes86 km—
- 8Silver BeachSt. Joseph, United States · Lake Michigan98 km—
- 9Silver BeachSt Joseph, United States · Lake Michigan98 km—
- 10Bradford BeachMilwaukee, United States · Lake Michigan134 km—
- 11Bradford BeachMilwaukee, United States · Lake Michigan135 km—
- 12Oval BeachSaugatuck, United States · Lake Michigan145 km—
- 13Oval BeachSaugatuck, United States · Lake Michigan145 km—
- 14Holland State ParkHolland, United States · Great Lakes153 km—
- 15Grand Haven State ParkGrand Haven, United States · Lake Michigan173 km—
- 16Grand Haven State ParkGrand Haven, United States · Great Lakes173 km—
- 17Grand Haven StateGrand Haven, United States · Lake Michigan173 km—
- 18Grand Haven BeachGrand Haven, United States · Lake Michigan174 km—
- 19Pere Marquette BeachMuskegon, United States · Lake Michigan183 km—
- 20Ludington BeachLudington, United States · Lake Michigan251 km—
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).