Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Oak Park, MI. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 4th in Oak Park runs cool, with an average high of just 51° and a low around 34°. The date's range is wild though — it's hit 72° as recently as 1997 and bottomed out at 18° back in 1954. There's a 1-in-4 chance of rain today, and a 10% shot at snow still very much on the table.
Oak Park's weather has some teeth — the thermometer has swung from a brutal -17° in January 1994 to a scorching 103° in June 1988, a 120-degree spread. On the wet side, a single September day in 2016 dropped 4.07 inches of rain, and December 1974 buried the city under 18 inches of snow in one storm.
Summer is the sweet spot, with late July averaging a comfortable 84° high — warm but rarely oppressive. Winters are genuinely cold; mid-January highs only reach 31° on average, so pack accordingly. If you're dodging rain, avoid early May, which is the wettest stretch of the year at over half an inch per week.