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
Dry for the moment, with rain moving in this afternoon
It is 51° with a dew point of 47°, which is dry for this time of year. The sky is overcast.
The first rain arrives between 2 PM and 3 PM, with the best chance of it around noon. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 2 PM, and it closes quickly after that.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Wet through the window, then cooler and clearing
The wet part of the window runs from about 2 PM to 5 PM, 13 hours of it, with the highest chance near noon. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.25 in.
It tapers off after 5 PM. The overnight low settles near 38°. Tomorrow reaches 44°, 6° cooler than today. The humidity goes with it: tomorrow is the more comfortable half of this window, and the safer one for anything outdoors.
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
29–57°F across the weekThe week runs between 29° and 50°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 70%. 5 of the 7 days stay 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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