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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 to7 Sep 2025 That day's board

The worst cities in Canada for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 7 Sep 2025: Grande Prairie 24.0 µg/m³, Fort McMurray 22.8 µg/m³ and Edmonton 21.8 µg/m³.

  1. 1Grande PrairieAlberta24.0
  2. 2Fort McMurrayAlberta22.8
  3. 3EdmontonAlberta21.8
  4. 4Fort SaskatchewanAlberta20.5
  5. 5SquamishBritish Columbia18.7
  6. 6Prince GeorgeBritish Columbia18.6
  7. 7EstevanSaskatchewan18.2
  8. 8St. AlbertAlberta17.8
  9. 9Fort St. JohnBritish Columbia17.7
  10. 10CalgaryAlberta17.6
  11. 11Sherwood ParkAlberta17.0
  12. 12LethbridgeAlberta15.8
  13. 13Grand CentreAlberta15.4
  14. 14EdsonAlberta14.8
  15. 15Red DeerAlberta14.5
  16. 16QuesnelBritish Columbia14.3
  17. 17SaskatoonSaskatchewan14.3
  18. 18Drayton ValleyAlberta13.7
  19. 19HopeBritish Columbia13.6
  20. 20WhistlerBritish Columbia13.6

+ 95 more cities, 13.2 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Flin Flon since 23 Aug 2025 and Brossard since 21 Aug 2025.

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.