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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 to5 May 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in Canada for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 5 May 2026: Edmonton 7.1 µg/m³, Prince George 7.1 µg/m³ and Harewood 7.1 µg/m³.

  1. 1EdmontonAlberta7.1
  2. 2Prince GeorgeBritish Columbia7.1
  3. 3HarewoodBritish Columbia7.1
  4. 4Sorel-TracyQuebec7.0
  5. 5AbbotsfordBritish Columbia6.6
  6. 6CastlegarBritish Columbia6.6
  7. 7Port AlberniBritish Columbia6.6
  8. 8QuesnelBritish Columbia6.6
  9. 9HamiltonOntario6.5
  10. 10VictoriaBritish Columbia6.5
  11. 11ChilliwackBritish Columbia6.4
  12. 12AgassizBritish Columbia6.3
  13. 13LangleyBritish Columbia6.3
  14. 14DuncanBritish Columbia6.2
  15. 15Red DeerAlberta6.1
  16. 16TerraceBritish Columbia6.1
  17. 17VernonBritish Columbia6.1
  18. 18MontréalQuebec5.9
  19. 19Port CoquitlamBritish Columbia5.9
  20. 20SquamishBritish Columbia5.9

+ 97 more cities, 5.9 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.