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Cities in Canada, worst air first, day by day

Each measured city's average over the 30 days to every day since January 2023, worst first. Find your own city to follow it through the race, or keep to one country.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to24 Jun 2023 That day's board

The worst cities in Canada for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 24 Jun 2023: Rouyn-Noranda 38.1 µg/m³, Grande Prairie 32.5 µg/m³ and Fort McMurray 29.5 µg/m³.

  1. 1Rouyn-NorandaQuebec38.1
  2. 2Grande PrairieAlberta32.5
  3. 3Fort McMurrayAlberta29.5
  4. 4Prince AlbertSaskatchewan26.2
  5. 5Labrador CityNewfoundland and Labrador24.9
  6. 6BellevilleOntario24.8
  7. 7EdmontonAlberta24.4
  8. 8OttawaOntario23.4
  9. 9EdsonAlberta23.1
  10. 10Greater SudburyOntario23.0
  11. 11Fort SaskatchewanAlberta22.9
  12. 12SaskatoonSaskatchewan22.8
  13. 13KingstonOntario22.5
  14. 14North BayOntario22.1
  15. 15Grand CentreAlberta21.3
  16. 16KitchenerOntario20.5
  17. 17BrantfordOntario20.4
  18. 18PeterboroughOntario20.4
  19. 19LondonOntario20.2
  20. 20St. ThomasOntario20.1

+ 86 more cities, 19.9 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Fort St. John since 15 Jun 2023 and Brandon since 30 May 2023.

30 days7 days
GoodModerateSensitive groupsUnhealthyVery unhealthyHazardousWHO 24-hour guideline, 15 µg/m³Fades where it stood: not counted that day

A city's number is its average over the 30 days, shown only when 21 of them were measured (5 of 7 on the 7-day race), the same minimum as the 30- and 7-day boards. A city whose monitors go quiet fades out where it stood rather than sliding down, so a gap never reads as cleaner air. Some large countries are thin or missing because their monitors' licences don't allow reuse. How we rank.

Not covered: the government monitoring networks of China and Turkey, which publish only on their own websites; we are building the readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.