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USGS Gauge 04121650 — Muskegon River at Big Rapids, Michigan
Water temperature 58.6 °F. 2.9 °F below the five-year normal for this date.
Open in BirdTrout43.69363, -85.46754 · 886 ft elevation · 1,515 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
Right now
- 58.6 °F Water temperature
- — Cubic ft / second
- -2.9 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 67.1 °FThis date last year
Live from USGS — the numbers above are current rather than whenever the page was written. The normal is the mean of every reading at this gauge within 3 days of this calendar date in the previous years of record — 30 readings, averaging 65.0 °F.
The last thirty days
Daily means from USGS. A gap in the line is a gap in the record.
The record at this gauge
| Month | Mean temp | Mean flow |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 33.0 °F | — |
| Feb | 33.5 °F | — |
| Mar | 38.5 °F | — |
| Apr | 48.7 °F | — |
| May | 60.1 °F | — |
| Jun | 68.8 °F | — |
| Jul | 72.9 °F | — |
| Aug | 70.0 °F | — |
| Sep | 64.0 °F | — |
| Oct | 53.4 °F | — |
| Nov | 41.5 °F | — |
| Dec | 34.6 °F | — |
- 79.7 °FWarmest, 2025-06-23
- 32.0 °FColdest, 2021-12-08
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,824 temperature days over 5.0 years and 0 flow days. These are not USGS-published normals, and a month with fewer than 20 days of record is left blank rather than averaged.
What this gauge predicts
This is one of the gauges this site fits an air-to-water model against, which is how the map colours water that has no gauge on it. July mean 72.89 °F; the fit explains 90% of the variance with a typical error of 2.005 °F.
The water it stands in
We hold no coldwater classification for this river, so the page makes no claim about one. The gauge is here because it stands close to water that does carry a designation.
Snapped to NHD reach Muskegon River (60002500020861), 11.9 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Muskegon River near Stanwood, MI 5.6 mi · USGS 04121660
- Muskegon River near Oxbow, MI 16.5 mi · USGS 04121680
- Little Muskegon River near Oak Grove, MI 19.2 mi · USGS 04121944
Dams near this gauge
- Rogers 5.6 mi · 43 ft
A dam upstream of a gauge moves what the gauge reads. A hydro dam moves it on a release schedule this page does not know.
Access near this gauge
- Townline Lake 2.4 mi · boat launch · Townline Lake
- River Bend Bluffs 3.8 mi · canoe launch · Muskegon River
- Clear Lake 3.9 mi · boat launch · Clear Lake
- Bergess Lake 4.2 mi · boat launch · Bergess Lake
- Rogers Pond 4.9 mi · boat launch · Rogers Dam Pond
- Hillsview Lake 5.1 mi · boat launch · Hillsview Lake
Fly shops nearby
- Pere Marquette River Lodge23.6 mi · Baldwin
- Baldwin Bait & Tackle23.8 mi · Baldwin
- Johnson's Pere Marquette Lodge23.9 mi · Baldwin
- Ed's Sport Shop23.9 mi · Baldwin