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Most polluted cities in Quebec, Canada, 2023
12 cities in Quebec, Canada ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 365 days; 12 above the WHO annual guideline (5.0 µg/m³). Worst: Rouyn-Noranda at 12.6 µg/m³, #169 of 1,302 cities in the world. Cleanest: Dorval at 7.7. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
OpenAQ's archive, where our readings come from, has almost none for 56 of these 365 days. Cities in the United States and Europe have them from the EPA's and the European Environment Agency's own records of the same monitors; elsewhere a city's average is over its other days. Why.
About 33.9K people in these 4 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of 2023.
Ranked by people: each city's population times its share of unhealthy days, those with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+). That is how many people living there breathed unhealthy air on an average day. Only cities measured at 2 or more places at least 3 km apart are ranked: one monitor shouldn't speak for a whole city. Population is the city itself, not its wider metro area.
- 1Montréal 28.4K
- 2Saguenay 1.92K
- 3Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles 1.84K
- 4Québec 1.72K
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 Quebec, Canada, PM2.5, 2023, smogrank.com/ca/region/quebec/history/2023 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).
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