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Detroit Turkey Trot weather
November 26, 2026 · Detroit, MI · scheduled start 7:30 AM (America/Detroit). What the start usually feels like, year by year — and a live start-time read once the race is inside the 7-day forecast window.
Countdown
91 days to race day
The live race-day forecast unlocks 85 days from now, when November 26, 2026 enters the 7-day forecast window — a start-time read for the scheduled 7:30 AM start. Until then, live hourly data is not available; the history below shows what race morning usually looks like.
Typical start temp
36°F
median of 20 years
A warm year
40°F
75th percentile start temp
Rain at the start
25%
5 of 20 measured years
Race-morning weather history
Late-Nov Detroit mornings: near/below freezing, wind chill, flurries possible; the 7:30 gun is near dawn. 2020 was "100% virtual" (first time in event history). Wyndo tracks what this calendar slot has actually served up at the start hour — temperature, dew point, wind, and rain — including the years when weather canceled or disrupted the race, and reads the live forecast for the start once race week arrives.
Median start temp
36°F
p75 (a warm year): 40°F
Median dew point
32°F
at the start hour
Rain at the start
25%
5 of 20 measured years
Warmest start
49°F
in 2020
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| Year | Start temp | Dew point | Wind | Precip (start hr) | Day's high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32°F | 24°F | 18 mph | dry | 34°F |
| 2024 | 36°F | 33°F | 11 mph | dry | 40°F |
| 2023 | 37°F | 33°F | 13 mph | dry | 47°F |
| 2022 | 30°F | 27°F | 5 mph | dry | 53°F |
| 2021 | 43°F | 38°F | 9 mph | 0.2 mm | 47°F |
| 2020 | 49°F | 48°F | 10 mph | dry | 49°F |
| 2019 | 37°F | 28°F | 14 mph | dry | 39°F |
| 2018 | 20°F | 9°F | 5 mph | dry | 30°F |
| 2017 | 30°F | 23°F | 10 mph | dry | 38°F |
| 2016 | 40°F | 38°F | 6 mph | 0.3 mm | 45°F |
| 2015 | 47°F | 40°F | 15 mph | 0.5 mm | 57°F |
| 2014 | 30°F | 23°F | 10 mph | dry | 33°F |
| 2013 | 21°F | 11°F | 6 mph | dry | 28°F |
| 2012 | 40°F | 38°F | 10 mph | dry | 57°F |
| 2011 | 37°F | 35°F | 10 mph | dry | 44°F |
| 2010 | 41°F | 37°F | 17 mph | 1.8 mm | 48°F |
| 2009 | 42°F | 36°F | 13 mph | dry | 47°F |
| 2008 | 29°F | 24°F | 6 mph | dry | 37°F |
| 2007 | 34°F | 32°F | 19 mph | 0.5 mm | 39°F |
| 2006 | 30°F | 29°F | 6 mph | dry | 47°F |
Slot climatology: each row is the weather at this race's usual calendar slot and start hour (ERA5 reanalysis at the start line) — including years when the edition was canceled or moved. A computed slot date is not a claim the race ran that day.
Your heat-adjusted goal for the 10k
The same cited model as the full calculator, pointed at this race: the median start-hour conditions this calendar slot has served up — climatology, not a forecast.
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Race facts
- Start line
- 10K start: Griswold St at W Congress St (official 2025 course-map PDF; 2026 map not yet published — carried forward). Intersection geocode, approximate.
- Scheduled start
- 7:30 AM (America/Detroit) — Official 2026: 10K (headline) and the Mashed Potato Mile fire simultaneously at 7:30 AM on DIFFERENT courses (the Mile starts at Huntington Place, not this start line); 5K 8:30. No earlier wheelchair/elite gun found in sources checked.
- Field size
- Finishers, 2025, across 10K/5K/1mi, per the RunSignup Top-100 list (aggregator, results-derived; re-verified live 2026-08-27).
- Registration
- open (benefits The Parade Company)
Wyndo is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Detroit Turkey Trot (officially the "Strategic Staffing Solutions Turkey Trot") or its organizers. Race names are used descriptively to identify the event; schedules and start times belong to the race — always confirm details on the official site. Weather guidance here is informational, never medical advice, and event alert flags on race day belong to the race's own medical team.