SmogRank / Castlegar / Medicine Hat
Castlegar vs Medicine Hat: PM2.5 compared
Over the last year, Castlegar's air was about 1.6× as polluted as Medicine Hat's: PM2.5 averaged 11.0 µg/m³ against 6.8, on the 321 days both cities were measured. Castlegar had the dirtier air on 234 of those days, Medicine Hat on 80. Castlegar was over the WHO's daily guideline of 15 µg/m³ on 39 of them, Medicine Hat on 18.
Right now
The last year, day by day
Month by month
Year by year
| Year | Castlegar | Medicine Hat | Days Castlegar was worse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 57 | 40 | 181 |
| 2025 | 42 | 43 | 188 |
| 2024 | 40 | 39 | 189 |
| 2023 | 53 | 47 | 179 |
Means in US AQI over the days both cities were measured that year; a year shows once they share 30 such days.
Each city's worst days
Castlegar
- 11 Aug 2026227152.0 µg/m³
- 9 Aug 2026193116.0 µg/m³
- 7 Aug 2026187107.0 µg/m³
Medicine Hat
- 2 Aug 202614051.3 µg/m³
- 24 Jul 202613549.3 µg/m³
- 26 Jul 202610838.2 µg/m³
Daily means in US AQI, with µg/m³ beside them, since the index stops at its top value, over the days both cities were measured in the last year. Each date opens that day's world board.
Compare either city with another
Castlegar
Side by side with Creston (the nearest), Edmonton (Canada's 2nd worst on 30 days), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Medicine Hat
Side by side with Lethbridge (the nearest), Gujranwala (the world's worst on 30 days).
Use this page
SmogRank, PM2.5 daily means compared, Castlegar and Medicine Hat, 7 Oct 2025 – 6 Oct 2026, smogrank.com/compare/ca-castlegar/ca-medicine-hat (accessed 7 Oct 2026).
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The same rules as every SmogRank figure: reference monitors first, and a day counts with 18 measured hours. How we measure.
Updated 2026-10-07 08:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index.