Cheap Flights to Detroit

Detroit climate

Winters in Detroit are bitter cold and snowy, with icy winds and temperatures below freezing. Spring is damp and chilly with temperatures ranging from the 0 to 15 degrees. June starts to get warm, and July and August are hot and humid with temperatures in the 20s. The September and October temperatures start to go down to the -10s. July tends to be the hottest month and January the coldest.

When to fly to Detroit

Peak Seasons:

Summer is the most popular time to visit the Midwest and the Great Lakes, and July and August are when prices for flights to Detroit tend to be the highest.

Fall foliage season starts around mid-September, and the colours reach their peak by mid-October.

Off Season:

Winter and early spring is the off season; however, despite the bitter winters, visitors come to Michigan for downhill skiing.

Getting around Detroit

The best way to get around the Motor City is by car. Detroit is easy to drive through, and there are plenty of parking spots. Bring a good map, since many downtown streets are one way, and avoid driving in rush hour. The People Mover runs on an elevated track in a five kilometre loop downtown. If you need a taxi, you can hail one on the street.

Detroit insider information

• The Henry Ford Museum is Ford’s collection of commonplace items and historic buildings that document American genius. Naturally there are transportation exhibits that include automobiles, presidential limousines, and Oscar Mayer’s original 1952 Wienermobile. Some of the other displays are a Buckminster Fuller “house of the future,” silver work from Paul Revere to Tiffany, and a gothic steam engine. A full tour also covers the seven districts in historic Greenfield Village and the Ford Rouge Factory. (Factory tour tickets sell out in advance, so it’s recommended that you buy them online.)
• Cranbrook House and Gardens is the estate of newspaper publisher George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps and is the oldest surviving manor home in metro Detroit. The house, designed in 1908, is English Arts and Crafts style, and its furnishings and décor are handcrafted. The 40-acre garden surrounding the house has Japanese and rose gardens, woods, and walks around two lakes on the 40-acre site. The complex is adjacent to the Cranbrook School and Institute of Science. The house and gardens are open for touring May through October.
• Detroit has a full complement of museums. The Detroit Institute of Arts houses 100 galleries with collections that include Rembrandt, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Joos Van Cleeve, and Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry mural. The Detroit Historical Museum re-creates the city's past complete with a two-storey automobile assembly line. The Wright Museum of African American History is the largest African-American museum in the world. The Core Exhibition Gallery, And Still We Rise, shows African American History from slavery through the Civil War, Emancipation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and contemporary society. The Motown Museum gives you a tour through the original recording studio, exhibits of photographs, album covers, newspaper clippings, and gold records.
• In January the Motor City hosts the annual North American International Auto Show and in August at the annual Woodward Dream Cruise, a parade of over 40,000 cars.
• In July Detroit joins its neighbour, Windsor, Ontario, in the week long International Freedom Festival, celebrating both Canada Day and Independence Day, ending with a fireworks display that is the centerpiece of the entire celebration.