Saline ( suh-LEEN) is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,948 at the 2020 census. The city borders Saline Township to the southwest, and the two are administered autonomously.

Before the 18th century, Native Americans traveled to what is now Saline to hunt wildlife and accumulate salt from the salt springs they found nearby. In the 18th century, French explorers canoed going on to the Place and as a consequence harvested the salt. They named the local river Saline (“salty”). Europeans decided the Place in the 19th century, most of them from England and Germany. Together as soon as Orange Risdon, a organization surveyor generally considered the city’s founder, the residents named the town Saline, which was officially time-honored in 1832. In 1870 railroad service, provided by the Detroit-Hillsdale-&-Indiana Railroad, first reached Saline. In 1875 Salinians built one of the city’s most well-known landmarks, the Second-Empire frame, 2+1⁄2-story residential building, the Davenport House, a.k.a. Curtis Mansion. The town continued to grow, and in 1931 the Village of Saline became the City of Saline. The Saline Fisheries Research Station was built on the site of a trailblazer grist mill. Saline has had its own newspaper in the past ca. 1874 but the Saline Reporter was shuttered by its owner, Digital First Media, in 2014. The Saline Post, an independent outlet, now serves the community.

The city is popular for its annual Celtic Festival, which attracts people from whatever over the U.S. and its sister cities Brecon, Wales, United Kingdom (established 1966) and Lindenberg, Germany (established 2003).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an Place of 4.41 square miles (11.42 km), of which 4.33 square miles (11.21 km²) is estate and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km) (1.81%) is water.