Michigan (MI) Road Conditions

MiDrive is the traveler information map run by the Michigan Department of Transportation, at michigan.gov/drive. It is the state's answer to what the road is doing at this minute, and MDOT publishes on it:

• Real-time traffic speeds across the freeway network
• Construction lane closures
• Incident and crash lane closures
• Camera views, where a camera is available
• MDOT snowplows and maintenance vehicles, which is what the map is for in winter
• Truck parking

MiDrive and the conditions on this page

MiDrive reports the closure; the weather on this page is what causes it. Michigan's two worst driving hazards both announce themselves in the forecast before they reach the road: the lake-effect snow that comes off Lake Michigan onto US-131, I-196 and the west side of the state, and the freezing rain that glazes I-94 and I-96 between Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids. By the time a crash or a plow shows up on MiDrive, the conditions that produced it have been on the map above for an hour.

So the two maps answer different halves of the same question, and it is worth opening both. Check MiDrive for what is shut, coned off or crawling right now. Use the pavement conditions here — wet, slush, snow or ice, off radar and surface data rather than off a report — to judge what the road itself is doing between the incidents, which is the part a live traffic map cannot tell you until somebody has already crashed on it.

No full closures are reported in Michigan as of Oct 9, 2026 3:11 AM UTC, and no lane closures or roadworks either. Always check with the responsible state DOT before setting off.

Interstates Through Michigan, Road by Road

Each stretch has its own live conditions, closures and cameras for the Michigan miles only — the weather 500 miles away on the same interstate says nothing about this drive.

• I-69 Michigan Road Conditions 203 mi
• I-75 Michigan Road Conditions 396 mi
• I-94 Michigan Road Conditions 275 mi

NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, from 4 weather stations in Michigan. A dash is a figure that station does not report, not a zero.

Snowfall across Michigan is not one number: Detroit averages 31.4" a year and Marquette averages 117.2".

Driving in Michigan Month by Month

What the road normally throws at you, month by month, from NOAA's 1991–2020 normals for Michigan's own stations. Each month names its dominant hazard and the place that measured it — this is what the month is usually like, not a forecast and not a restriction.

• January Snow 29.5 in of snow at Marquette, 23.8 days that never thaw at Marquette
• February Snow 20.7 in of snow at Marquette, 18.7 days that never thaw at Marquette
• March Snow 21.7 in of snow at Marquette, 10.7 days that never thaw at Marquette
• April Snow 7.5 in of snow at Marquette, 1.4 days that never thaw at Marquette
• May Quiet 7 wet days at Grand Rapids is the most the normals report
• June Quiet 6.2 wet days at Lansing is the most the normals report
• July Quiet 6.1 wet days at Grand Rapids is the most the normals report
• August Quiet 6.1 wet days at Grand Rapids is the most the normals report
• September Quiet 7.1 wet days at Marquette is the most the normals report
• October Snow 1 in of snow at Marquette, 0.1 days that never thaw at Marquette
• November Snow 10.9 in of snow at Marquette, 6.1 days that never thaw at Marquette
• December Snow 25.3 in of snow at Marquette, 18.8 days that never thaw at Marquette

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Michigan Road Weather FAQ

Are any roads closed in Michigan right now?

No full closures are reported on the interstates in Michigan. No lane closures or roadworks are reported either.

What are Michigan road conditions today?

The map on this page colors the interstates across Michigan by what is on the pavement right now — dry, wet, slush, snow or ice — from radar and surface data, last updated Oct 9, 2026 3:11 AM UTC. Right now temperatures run from 43°F to 58°F and the strongest wind is 7 mph.

Which interstates run through Michigan?

Michigan has 4 through interstates on this site: I-69, I-75, I-94 and I-96 — about 1,065 miles of interstate across the state. Each has its own page for the Michigan stretch.

How often are Michigan road conditions updated?

The road surface and weather layers are rebuilt whenever this page is opened with data more than ten minutes old, and refreshed on a schedule in between, so nothing here is more than about two hours old even on a road nobody has looked at. Closures and road blocks are re-imported from the state 511 feeds every fifteen minutes, and the written state-by-state summaries are refreshed daily. Every section on this page carries the time its data was fetched.