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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 to17 Aug 2024 That day's board

The worst cities in Canada for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 17 Aug 2024: Fort McMurray 53.7 µg/m³, Grand Centre 47.4 µg/m³ and Prince Albert 40.7 µg/m³.

  1. 1Fort McMurrayAlberta53.7
  2. 2Grand CentreAlberta47.4
  3. 3Prince AlbertSaskatchewan40.7
  4. 4Fort SaskatchewanAlberta40.5
  5. 5EdmontonAlberta39.2
  6. 6Flin FlonManitoba36.1
  7. 7SaskatoonSaskatchewan35.5
  8. 8CalgaryAlberta28.1
  9. 9EstevanSaskatchewan27.7
  10. 10St. AlbertAlberta26.5
  11. 11Swift CurrentSaskatchewan25.6
  12. 12ReginaSaskatchewan25.4
  13. 13Drayton ValleyAlberta24.3
  14. 14Grande PrairieAlberta23.8
  15. 15AirdrieAlberta22.9
  16. 16Red DeerAlberta22.9
  17. 17Sherwood ParkAlberta22.6
  18. 18Medicine HatAlberta22.5
  19. 19CastlegarBritish Columbia19.0
  20. 20Prince GeorgeBritish Columbia17.7

+ 98 more cities, 17.5 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Rouyn-Noranda since 16 Aug 2024 and Fort St. John since 6 Aug 2024.

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.