Grand Rapids, MI Weather Forecast
Kent County, Michigan
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Grand Rapids, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
A dry evening, mostly cloudy
It is 41°, but the wind is taking it down to 39° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly cloudy.
Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Dry and warming through tomorrow
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 30°. Tomorrow reaches 50°, 8° warmer than today.
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
30–62°F across the weekThe week runs between 30° and 62°, with Saturday the warmest day of it. The second half leans warming, and today is the coolest day in it. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Grand Rapids, MI at a glance
Grand Rapids is home to about 196,608 people in Kent County, across 45 square miles. It ranks 2nd by population of 584 places in Michigan with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is East Grand Rapids, 3 miles away.
- County
- Kent County
- Population
- 196,608 2023 est.
- Land area
- 45 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 4,391
- Forecast point
- 42.9612°N, 85.6556°W
How well can the network see Grand Rapids?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGRR (Grand Rapids, MI), to the SE. Its lowest scan passes about 360 ft above Grand Rapids. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Grand Rapids show up clearly. Grand Rapids is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KGRR (Grand Rapids Intl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Grand Rapids
- East Grand Rapids, MI3 mi
- Wyoming, MI6 mi
- Walker, MI6 mi
- Kentwood, MI6 mi
- Grandville, MI6 mi
- Plainfield, MI8 mi
- Ada, MI9 mi
- Alpine, MI9 mi
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