AA meetings across Michigan

AA Meetings Michigan

•Sourced from official Michigan AA intergroups

Michigan has 2,307 AA meetings listed across 484 cities, held every day of the week at churches, community centers, and online. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Michigan are free and confidential, and open to anyone with a desire to stop drinking, with no membership, referral, or fee required.

Michigan's AA fellowship is shaped by the state's two-peninsula geography: the densely populated Lower Peninsula running from Detroit and the Metro Detroit suburbs up through Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Traverse City, plus the Upper Peninsula reaching from Marquette to the Wisconsin border. The directory lists meetings in all 83 counties.

Michigan AA Intergroup and Central Office

The largest AA intergroup listed in Michigan is Kent County Central Office, with 226 meetings. Call them at (616) 913-9149 or visit grandrapidsaa.org for meeting updates and local AA service information. 31 other AA service offices serve Michigan, listed further down this page.

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Online AA Meetings in Michigan

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Sundays7:15AM - 8:15AM
Online
3334 Breton Road Southeast, Kentwood, Michigan
Meeting Types & Format:
OpenEnglish
Meeting Notes:

Meeting ID: 836 7783 5383 Password: 099 525

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The face to face part of this meeting will end effective Jan. 1, 2026

Sundays8:00AM - 9:00AM
Online
Charlotte, MI 48813, USA, Charlotte, Michigan
Meeting Types & Format:
English
Meeting Notes:

Zoom ID: 725 516 1032; PW: 164 7-days-a-week Closed Discussion; Online Meeting

Sundays8:30AM - 9:30AM
Online
4125 Cedar Run Road, Traverse City, Michigan
Meeting Types & Format:
Wheelchair AccessEnglish
Meeting Notes:

In person and Zoom: #472-723-9847 PW 605127

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When Are AA Meetings in Michigan?

Most AA meetings in Michigan start at 7pm, with 1,218 scheduled across the week at that hour. The single busiest slot is Monday at 7pm, when 215 meetings run.

AA Meetings in Michigan by the Numbers

Across Michigan, the 2,307 listed AA groups are concentrated in Ann Arbor (114 meetings), Lansing (102), and Grand Rapids (84), with active groups in 484 cities in total. Monday is the busiest day for meetings, and evening (5–9 PM) sessions are the most common. About 26% of groups (592) offer an online or hybrid option.

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When AA groups meet in Michigan

  • Sunday551
  • Monday706
  • Tuesday704
  • Wednesday685
  • Thursday704
  • Friday657
  • Saturday559

Meetings per day of the week across Michigan. Monday has the most scheduled groups.

What members read between meetings

A.A.'s own literature does most of the heavy lifting between meetings in Michigan. These are the books most often spotted on a member's bookshelf, with a short note on what each one is for. Each card is tagged with its language.

Cover of Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book)

The book Bill W. and Dr. Bob wrote first, in 1939. Most members pick up a copy in their first week or two and keep it close.

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Cover of Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Bill W.'s longer essays on each Step and each Tradition. The usual companion read once the Big Book starts to feel familiar.

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Cover of Living Sober

A short, practical book about the day-to-day of staying sober. Often the one a sponsor suggests in the first month.

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Cover of Daily Reflections

One short A.A. reading for each day of the year, with a thought to carry into it. Members often keep a copy on the kitchen counter.

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Cover of As Bill Sees It

Brief passages from A.A.'s co-founder, arranged by topic. Some groups read one aloud at the top of every meeting.

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About AA in Michigan

Metro Detroit: the largest AA calendar in Michigan

Detroit Area Intergroup coordinates several thousand weekly meetings across Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. Downtown Detroit and Midtown have noon meetings serving the office and hospital workforce; the East Side and the West Side each have historic groups that have been running for decades. Hamtramck has a long Polish-American meeting tradition (the Polish-language meetings here are among the oldest in the country). Dearborn anchors the area's Arabic-language presence. The Oakland County suburbs (Royal Oak, Birmingham, Bloomfield, Troy, Farmington Hills) and the Macomb County communities (Sterling Heights, Warren, Clinton Township) have dense suburban-style commuter calendars. Ann Arbor anchors a young-people's presence near Michigan.

Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Western Michigan

Greater Lansing Intergroup covers Lansing, East Lansing (MSU), and the surrounding capital-region communities. Western Michigan Intergroup serves Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Holland, and the Lake Michigan shore towns. The Grand Rapids meeting calendar reflects the city's tight-knit recovery community, with several decades-old groups downtown and across the Heritage Hill, Eastown, and Westside neighborhoods. Muskegon, Grand Haven, and the Lakeshore communities maintain year-round meeting calendars that visibly increase in attendance during the summer.

Northern Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula

Northwest Michigan Intergroup serves Traverse City, Cadillac, Petoskey, and the surrounding Northern Lower Peninsula counties. The meeting culture here is shaped by both the year-round resort-town workforce and the seasonal vacation surge. Upper Peninsula Intergroup covers a vast geography from Sault Ste. Marie to Marquette, Houghton, Escanaba, and the Wisconsin border. UP meetings tend to be smaller and tightly connected, with hybrid format keeping weekly attendance possible across the sparsely populated counties and harsh winter conditions.

Flint, Saginaw, and the I-75 corridor

Flint Area Intergroup and Saginaw Area Intergroup serve Genesee, Saginaw, Bay, and Midland counties, with meeting networks shaped by the region's industrial history and post-industrial recovery culture. Bay City and Midland anchor smaller but reliable calendars. The Thumb counties (Tuscola, Huron, Sanilac) maintain agricultural-community meeting networks.

Getting to a meeting in Michigan

DDOT and SMART cover Metro Detroit with bus service; the QLine streetcar runs along Woodward Avenue. The Rapid serves Grand Rapids; CATA serves Lansing. Amtrak runs the Wolverine (Pontiac-Detroit-Chicago), Blue Water (Port Huron-Chicago), and Pere Marquette (Grand Rapids-Chicago). Outside the metros, driving is the standard option.

Finding AA Meetings in Michigan

Michigan leans toward closed meetings: 67% of the weekly schedule is for people who want to stop drinking, against 23% open to anyone. Wheelchair access is listed for 27% of them.

What kinds of AA meetings are there in Michigan?

AA meeting types in Michigan by share of the weekly schedule
Meeting typeShare of weekly meetingsWhat it means
Closed67%For people who have a desire to stop drinking
Discussion48%Members share on a chosen topic
Wheelchair access27%The venue lists wheelchair access
Open23%Anyone may attend, including family and friends
Big Book6%Reads and discusses the book Alcoholics Anonymous
Women4%For women
Men2%For men
12 Steps & 12 Traditions2%Studies the book of that name

A meeting can carry several types, so the shares do not add up to 100%.

Major Cities with AA Support in Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan's most active AA community, hosts 114 meetings. Other major cities include Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, and more, each running multiple meetings per week.

Ann Arbor

114 AA meetings available

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Lansing

102 AA meetings available

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Detroit

67 AA meetings available

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Monroe

36 AA meetings available

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Is there support in Michigan for family and friends of someone who drinks?

Yes. 23% of the weekly AA schedule in Michigan is open meetings, which anyone may attend, including family and friends who want to understand what someone they love is going through. In all, 34 weekly sessions run alongside an Al-Anon meeting, and one alongside Alateen.

Al-Anon is a separate fellowship for people affected by someone else's drinking, and Alateen is its program for teenagers. Both are free and list their own meetings, in person and online, at al-anon.org. This directory lists AA meetings only.

AA is not treatment. For detox, treatment and sober living, see what other alcohol support there is besides AA.

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Michigan Intergroups and Central Offices

32 offices are listed for Michigan, with the contact details each one publishes.

A.A. Of Greater Detroit
820
A.A. Southwest Michigan, District 1 Area 34
32
Southwest Michigan
Area 22 Northern Indiana
www.area22indiana.org
Area 34 District 12
10
area34district12.org
Area 34 Northwestern Michigan
2
Crawford County, MI, USA
Area 34, District 16 - Eastern Upper Peninsula
2
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783, USA
Area 34, District 2
9
sites.google.com/view/aad2a34/home
Area 34, District 9 West Michigan
40
area34district9.org
Area 55 NW Ohio & SE Michigan
31
Toledo, OH, USA
Area 74 - N. Wisconsin/ Upper Penn. MI
47
Wisconsin, USA
www.area74.org
Area 74, District 09
8
Shawano, WI, USA
www.district09aa.org
Bay County Unity Intergroup
24
www.baycountyaa.org
District 10 Central Michigan
5
Durand, MI, USA
District 15 Northern Michigan
25
aadistrict15mi.com
District 16, Area 32 - Gratiot Isabella County AA
14
Mt Pleasant, MI 48858, USA
gratiotisabellacounty-aa.com
District 18: Marquette County
26
Marquette County, MI, USA
www.aa-marquettecounty.org
District 2 of Area 32
50
www.area32d2.org
District 26, Area 32
33
District 28 Area 32 - Northeastern Michigan
20
www.district28area32.org
District 6, Area 32
179
District 8: Livingston County
8
Livingston County, MI, USA
Flint Area Unity Council
17
Genesee County, MI, USA
geneseecountyaa.org
Greater Kalamazoo Michigan
53
wmaa4.org
Huron Valley Intergroup Inc.
198
Kent County Central Office
226
Kent County, MI, USA
Midland Unity Council of AA
33
Northern Michigan Central Office
107
Saginaw Valley AA
20
West Michigan District 3
40
wmd3aa.org
West Michigan District 5
27
westmidistrict5aa.org
Western Michigan District 13
36