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Most polluted cities in Ontario, Canada, July 2024

30 cities in Ontario, Canada ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Nepean at 14.8 µg/m³, #164 of 2,519 cities in the world. Cleanest: North Bay at 5.7. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

Ranked by unhealthy days: the share of each city's measured days with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+), Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or worse on the US EPA's scale. Ties go to the higher average.

← Nepean 0% 0.75%0

Every city in Ontario, Canada ranked for July 2024, one column each, ranked by unhealthy days: height is the share of its measured days that were unhealthy, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.

1Nepeanlow-cost sensors
0%
2Windsor
0%
3Toronto
0%
4Barrie
0%
5Brantford
0%
6Kitchener
0%
6Milton
0%
8Oakville
0%
9Hamilton
0%
9Thunder Bay
0%
11London
0%
11Newmarket
0%
11Ottawa
0%
11St. Catharines
0%
15Waterdown
0%
16Peterborough
0%
16Sarnia
0%
18Brampton
0%
18Brooklin
0%
18Guelph
0%
18Sault Ste. Marie
0%
22St. Thomas
0%
23Cornwall
0%
24Greater Sudbury
0%
24Mississauga
0%
26Kingston
0%
27Parry Sound
0%
28Chatham
0%
29Belleville
0%
30North Bay
0%

Low-cost sensors: consumer units, counted only in cities with no government-grade monitor; they read close to reference monitors on the whole, but 15 to 25% high in humid air. How we use them.

Good0–50

Moderate51–100

Sensitive groups101–150

Unhealthy151–200

Very unhealthy201–300

Hazardous301+

The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales

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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Ontario, Canada, PM2.5, July 2024, smogrank.com/ca/region/ontario/history/2024-07 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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