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USGS Gauge 04123500 — Manistee River near Grayling, Michigan
Water temperature 53.6 °F. 2.6 °F below the five-year normal for this date. 208 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout44.69305, -84.84714 · 1120 ft elevation · 136 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
Right now
- 53.6 °F Water temperature
- 208 Cubic ft / second
- -2.6 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 57.5 °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 — 23 readings, averaging 56.6 °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 | 35.9 °F | 178 |
| Feb | 36.4 °F | 173 |
| Mar | 40.3 °F | 199 |
| Apr | 46.5 °F | 288 |
| May | 54.1 °F | 229 |
| Jun | 59.7 °F | 204 |
| Jul | 62.0 °F | 196 |
| Aug | 59.4 °F | 185 |
| Sep | 55.8 °F | 182 |
| Oct | 49.2 °F | 182 |
| Nov | 41.5 °F | 187 |
| Dec | 37.1 °F | 182 |
- 67.6 °FWarmest, 2026-07-14
- 32.5 °FColdest, 2022-01-07
- 710Highest flow, 2026-04-14
- 153Lowest flow, 2022-12-24
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,144 temperature days over 5.0 years and 1,061 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 61.92 °F; the fit explains 82% of the variance with a typical error of 1.863 °F.
The water it stands in
Manistee River, classified Cold small river by MDNR VSEC — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 1.98 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach Manistee River (60002500011585), 5.3 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- South Branch Au Sable River near Luzerne, MI 20.0 mi · USGS 04135700
- Sb Au Sable River at Chase Bridge Nr Roscommon, MI 18.0 mi · USGS 04135687
Access near this gauge
- M-72 0.0 mi · canoe launch · Manistee River
- Hole in the Wall 2.2 mi · canoe launch · Manistee River
- Hole in the Fence 2.8 mi · canoe launch · Manistee River
- Tree Farm 3.1 mi · canoe launch · Manistee River
- Lake Margrethe State Forest Campground 3.3 mi · boat launch · Lake Margrethe
- Au Sable River At Williams Tract 4.8 mi · walk in
Fly shops nearby
- Old AuSable Fly Shop6.9 mi · Grayling
- The Fly Factory6.9 mi · Grayling
- Gates Au Sable Lodge14.2 mi · Grayling
- Village Outfitters18.4 mi · Roscommon