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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 to23 Jan 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Canada for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 23 Jan 2024: Calgary 15.3 µg/m³, Grande Prairie 12.9 µg/m³ and Edmonton 12.8 µg/m³.

  1. 1CalgaryAlberta15.3
  2. 2Grande PrairieAlberta12.9
  3. 3EdmontonAlberta12.8
  4. 4Fort SaskatchewanAlberta12.8
  5. 5Prince GeorgeBritish Columbia11.9
  6. 6Port AlberniBritish Columbia11.3
  7. 7Red DeerAlberta11.0
  8. 8WindsorOntario10.6
  9. 9Drayton ValleyAlberta10.5
  10. 10EdsonAlberta10.2
  11. 11CourtenayBritish Columbia10.0
  12. 12CranbrookBritish Columbia9.8
  13. 13AirdrieAlberta9.3
  14. 14DuncanBritish Columbia9.3
  15. 15LondonOntario9.3
  16. 16SmithersBritish Columbia9.0
  17. 17BrantfordOntario8.9
  18. 18St. AlbertAlberta8.8
  19. 19TorontoOntario8.8
  20. 20WaterdownOntario8.8

+ 100 more cities, the next at 8.7 µg/m³

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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 reader for China's network. Turkey's network doesn't answer requests from outside the country, so we can't read it. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.