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Most polluted cities in Ontario, Canada, November 2025

24 cities in Ontario, Canada ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 30 days. Worst: Windsor at 9.9 µg/m³, #1,020 of 2,662 cities in the world. Cleanest: Sault Ste. Marie at 2.1. 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.

← Windsor 0% 0.75%0
Every city in Ontario, Canada ranked for November 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. 1Windsor
    0%
  2. 2Nepeanlow-cost sensors
    0%
  3. 3Brantford
    0%
  4. 3Toronto
    0%
  5. 5Ottawa
    0%
  6. 5Sarnia
    0%
  7. 7Milton
    0%
  8. 8Hamilton
    0%
  9. 8Kitchener
    0%
  10. 10Waterdown
    0%
  11. 11Guelph
    0%
  12. 11St. Catharines
    0%
  13. 13St. Thomas
    0%
  14. 14Mississauga
    0%
  15. 14Newmarket
    0%
  16. 14Oakville
    0%
  17. 17Brampton
    0%
  18. 18Cornwall
    0%
  19. 19Barrie
    0%
  20. 20Kingston
    0%
  21. 21Peterborough
    0%
  22. 22Parry Sound
    0%
  23. 23North Bay
    0%
  24. 24Sault Ste. Marie
    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, November 2025, smogrank.com/ca/region/ontario/history/2025-11 (accessed 7 Oct 2026).

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