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Most polluted cities in Ontario, Canada, July 2025

29 cities in Ontario, Canada ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Nepean at 22.3 µg/m³, #162 of 2,832 cities in the world. Cleanest: St. Thomas at 9.8. 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 16% 10%0
Every city in Ontario, Canada ranked for July 2025, 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.
  1. 1Nepeanlow-cost sensors
    16%
  2. 2Parry Sound
    16%
  3. 3Sault Ste. Marie
    13%
  4. 4Oakville
    10%
  5. 5Greater Sudbury
    10%
  6. 6Toronto
    10%
  7. 7Milton
    10%
  8. 8North Bay
    10%
  9. 9Sarnia
    10%
  10. 10Ottawa
    10%
  11. 11Waterdown
    10%
  12. 12Brantford
    10%
  13. 13Newmarket
    6%
  14. 14Barrie
    6%
  15. 14Windsor
    6%
  16. 16Cornwall
    6%
  17. 17Brampton
    6%
  18. 18Mississauga
    6%
  19. 19Kitchener
    6%
  20. 19Peterborough
    6%
  21. 21London
    6%
  22. 22Guelph
    6%
  23. 23Belleville
    6%
  24. 24Hamilton
    6%
  25. 25Kingston
    6%
  26. 26St. Thomas
    3%
  27. 27Alliston
    3%
  28. 28St. Catharines
    3%
  29. 29Chatham
    3%

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 2025, smogrank.com/ca/region/ontario/history/2025-07 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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