Spot report
🇺🇸Chicago Harbor, Illinois
updated 04:45 local · open-meteo
⛵ Sailing· lake harbour · base: Chicago
Chicago Yacht Club's Race to Mackinac (since 1898) is the world's oldest annual freshwater distance race and starts off Navy Pier each July.
Heads up · Squalls on the lake; harbour slips scarce
Wind
4 km/h
gusts 10 · from N
Waves
0.1 m
2 s period
Road
dry
dry — 17 °C
Daylight
07:01 → 18:10
17 °C air · 0.0 mm · UV 0
What's rideable right now
Wind
Water
Mountain
River
🏄
SUP
RIDEABLEglassy — 4 km/h, prime
Best windows this week
- Tue 7am–6pmRIDEABLE
glassy — 4 km/h, prime · 12 h
- Wed 7am–4pmRIDEABLE
10 km/h — calm enough · 10 h
- Mon 12pm–6pmRIDEABLE
16 km/h — calm enough · 7 h
This week
Today
17 km/h · 0.7 m
14–19 °C
⛵Sailing
Thu
24 km/h · 0.7 m
13–15 °C · 41 mm
🌀Whitewater
Fri
29 km/h · 2.1 m
9–14 °C
⛵Sailing
Sat
25 km/h · 2.0 m
7–15 °C
🌊Surf
Sun
23 km/h · 0.3 m
10–18 °C
⛵Sailing
Mon
18 km/h · 0.3 m
12–18 °C
🧗Climb
Tue
8 km/h · 0.1 m
12–19 °C
🏄SUP
bars: daily max wind · wave · best sport each day
Pack list
- No water temp inland → judge by air — 17 °C. Lakes run colder than they look.
- UV 0 — low → no sun worries today
- 17 °C → sun shirt, 2 L of water
- Daylight 07:01–18:10 → golden hour from 17:10
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