Water temperature near Chicago today
Today's live sea temperatures at the 16 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—
- 2North Avenue BeachChicago, United States · Lake Michigan4 km—
- 3Indiana Dunes BeachChesterton, United States · Lake Michigan53 km—
- 4Warren DunesSawyer, United States · Great Lakes86 km—
- 5Silver BeachSt Joseph, United States · Lake Michigan98 km—
- 6Bradford BeachMilwaukee, United States · Lake Michigan135 km—
- 7Oval BeachSaugatuck, United States · Lake Michigan145 km—
- 8Holland State ParkHolland, United States · Great Lakes153 km—
- 9Grand Haven BeachGrand Haven, United States · Lake Michigan174 km—
- 10Pere Marquette BeachMuskegon, United States · Lake Michigan183 km—
- 11Ludington BeachLudington, United States · Lake Michigan251 km—
- 12Whitefish DunesSturgeon Bay, United States · Great Lakes341 km—
- 13Empire BeachEmpire, United States · Great Lakes350 km—
- 14Sleeping Bear BeachEmpire, United States · Lake Michigan350 km—
- 15Sleeping Bear BeachEmpire, United States · Lake Michigan353 km—
- 16Traverse City BeachTraverse City, United States · Lake Michigan360 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).