At an airfield/1.9 mi away/673 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Illinois
Large airport in Cook County, Illinois64°
66°/55°
Overcast·
Feels like 64°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 66° today.
Now. Chicago O'Hare International Airport is 64° and overcast at 8 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:04 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
96%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
64feels64
49%
Today
Oct 15
6655
99%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5649
35%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5738
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6341
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6644
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6947
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7050
overcast
64°
66°55°
56°49°
57°38°
63°41°
66°44°
69°47°
70°50°
As of 8:00 PM in Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Chicago (IL), 15 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)42Good1.6 mi
- Ozone12Good1 ppb1.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-12.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chicago O'Hare International Airport
0.75 in in the last 24 hours, 0.87 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.75in
- Last 3 days
- 0.87in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 86%
Visibility
How far you can see at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 4 miles Thu 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- ORD
- ICAO
- KORD
- IATA
- ORD
- Field elevation
- 680 ft
- Serves
- Chicago
- Kind
- Large airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- ORD
- Wind now
- From 190° at 8 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:23
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04L / 22R | 7,500 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 39° / 219° | 7 mph head, on 22R | 4 mph from the left |
| 04R / 22L | 8,075 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 41° / 221° | 7 mph head, on 22L | 4 mph from the left |
| 09C / 27C | 11,245 ft | 200 ft | concrete | 90° / 270° | 1 mph head, on 27C | 8 mph from the left |
| 09L / 27R | 7,500 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 1 mph head, on 27R | 8 mph from the left |
| 09R / 27L | 11,260 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 1 mph head, on 27L | 8 mph from the left |
| 10C / 28C | 10,800 ft | 200 ft | Concrete | 90° / 270° | 1 mph head, on 28C | 8 mph from the left |
| 10L / 28R | 13,000 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 90° / 270° | 1 mph head, on 28R | 8 mph from the left |
| 10R / 28L | 7,500 ft | 150 ft | CONCRETE | 90° / 270° | 1 mph head, on 28L | 8 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Chicago O'Hare International Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Des PlainesDSCI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/643 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rakow @ Pyott RdIMC03
Beside a road/26.6 mi away/895 ft/215 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Park Ridge 0.4 SWIL-CK-56
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/650 ft/30 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glen Ellyn 4SGLEI2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.1 mi away/679 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Chicago O'Hare International Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Rosemontvillage, 2 mi
- Schiller Parkvillage, 2 mi
- Bensenvillevillage, 3 mi
- Franklin Parkvillage, 3 mi
- Park Ridgecity, 4 mi
- Des Plainescity, 4 mi
- Wood Dalecity, 4 mi
- Norridgevillage, 4 mi
- Northlakecity, 4 mi
- River Grovevillage, 5 mi
- Harwood Heightsvillage, 5 mi
- Stone Parkvillage, 5 mi
Airports near Chicago O'Hare International Airport
- Chicago Executive AirportPWK, 9 mi
- Schaumburg Regional Airport06C, 10 mi
- Chicago Midway International AirportMDW, 15 mi
- Dupage AirportDPA, 18 mi
- Lewis University AirportLOT, 27 mi
- Waukegan National AirportUGN, 31 mi
- Aurora Municipal AirportARR, 33 mi
- Joliet Regional AirportJOT, 35 mi