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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 to20 Jan 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Canada for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 20 Jan 2024: Calgary 12.1 µg/m³, Grande Prairie 11.7 µg/m³ and Fort Saskatchewan 11.5 µg/m³.

  1. 1CalgaryAlberta12.1
  2. 2Grande PrairieAlberta11.7
  3. 3Fort SaskatchewanAlberta11.5
  4. 4WindsorOntario11.3
  5. 5EdmontonAlberta11.2
  6. 6Prince GeorgeBritish Columbia11.2
  7. 7Port AlberniBritish Columbia10.0
  8. 8LondonOntario9.8
  9. 9ChathamOntario9.3
  10. 10CourtenayBritish Columbia9.3
  11. 11CranbrookBritish Columbia9.3
  12. 12SarniaOntario9.3
  13. 13Red DeerAlberta9.1
  14. 14SmithersBritish Columbia9.1
  15. 15L'Ancienne-LoretteQuebec9.1
  16. 16BrantfordOntario9.0
  17. 17Drayton ValleyAlberta9.0
  18. 18DuncanBritish Columbia9.0
  19. 19St. ThomasOntario9.0
  20. 20EdsonAlberta8.9

+ 100 more cities, 8.8 µg/m³ and below

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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.