Settlement stations / KDTW

US · America/Detroit

IBKR settles Detroit temperature on KDTW

KDTW is Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County, Detroit. IBKR ForecastEx settles temperature contracts here. Below: the resolution source each venue names, when the station reports, and how long a reading takes to reach the public feed.

How it settles

VenueResolution sourceUnitBucketContracts
IBKR ForecastEx
Also sold through Robinhood: same ticker, same settlement.		Weather Underground daily history table for this station
Source code KDTW. That table carries hourly METARs and SPECIs only, over the local clock day, and prints whole degrees rounded.		Fahrenheit1°F ladder
Exceeds X, one rung per degree		high · low
UHDTW, ULDTW

Reporting and delay

Regular reports:53:53 past each hour, UTC — 1 regular report per hour.
Median delay3.5 minFrom the observation time in the report to the public NOAA feed. 42 reports, measured 2026-09-17.
90th percentile4.2 minOne report in ten is at least this late. Worth knowing before you trust a quiet hour.
Coordinates42.231, -83.331Local civil time: America/Detroit

Questions

Which weather station settles Detroit temperature contracts?

IBKR ForecastEx settles Detroit on KDTW, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County.

What is the resolution source for IBKR ForecastEx Detroit temperature?

IBKR ForecastEx names Weather Underground daily history table for this station. Contracts settle in Fahrenheit, as a ladder of contracts one degree apart that pay when the day's reading passes the strike. That table carries hourly METARs and SPECIs only, over the local clock day, and prints whole degrees rounded. Robinhood resells this same contract, at the same ticker and settlement.

When does KDTW report?

:53 past each hour, UTC — 1 regular report per hour.

How long does a KDTW observation take to become public?

Measured over 26 hours on 2026-09-17, the median delay from the observation time in the report to its arrival on the public NOAA feed was 3.5 min, with a 90th percentile of 4.2 min across 42 reports. This moves with upstream conditions and is not a service level.

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WeatherTick tracks 76 settlement stations and publishes each day's running high and low already converted into the unit and bucket the contract settles in. Open the terminal for Detroit, or see every settlement station. Settlement always follows the resolution source named by the venue; the figures here are computed from the public feed and are not a settlement source.