Air quality right now across America, the Living-In Map

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Where each city and state stands on air quality right now

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Air quality right now, cities 105 cities · cleanest first

	Place	Air quality right now	As of
1st	Honolulu	16	09/17/26
2nd	Minneapolis	24	09/17/26
2nd	Madison	24	09/17/26
4th	Des Moines	26	09/17/26
5th	Milwaukee	27	09/17/26
6th	Spokane	28	09/17/26
6th	Omaha	28	09/17/26
8th	Portland, Maine	30	09/17/26
9th	Chicago	31	09/17/26
9th	Albany	31	09/17/26
11th	Vancouver, Washington	34	09/17/26
11th	Miami	34	09/17/26
11th	Syracuse	34	09/17/26
14th	Jacksonville	35	09/17/26
14th	Charleston	35	09/17/26
14th	Jacksonville, Florida	35	09/17/26
14th	Providence	35	09/17/26
14th	Bridgeport	35	09/17/26
19th	Boston	36	09/17/26
19th	Orlando, Florida	36	09/17/26
19th	Akron	36	09/17/26
22nd	Cape Coral	37	09/17/26
22nd	Lakeland	37	09/17/26
22nd	Melbourne	37	09/17/26
25th	Sarasota	38	09/17/26
25th	McAllen	38	09/17/26
25th	Worcester	38	09/17/26
25th	Oxnard	38	09/17/26
25th	New Haven	38	09/17/26
30th	Denver	39	09/17/26
30th	Portland	39	09/17/26
30th	Grand Rapids	39	09/17/26
33rd	Daytona Beach	40	09/17/26
34th	Savannah	41	09/17/26
34th	Ogden	41	09/17/26
36th	Detroit	42	09/17/26
36th	Austin	42	09/17/26
36th	Sacramento	42	09/17/26
36th	Los Angeles, California	42	09/17/26
36th	Provo	42	09/17/26
41st	Colorado Springs	43	09/17/26
41st	Allentown	43	09/17/26
43rd	Richmond	44	09/15/26
43rd	Phoenix	44	09/17/26
43rd	Tampa	44	09/17/26
43rd	Albuquerque	44	09/17/26
43rd	San Antonio, Texas	44	09/17/26
43rd	Salt Lake City	44	09/17/26
43rd	New Orleans	44	09/17/26
43rd	Boise, Idaho	44	09/17/26
51st	Las Vegas	45	09/17/26
51st	Buffalo	45	09/17/26
53rd	Baltimore	46	09/17/26
53rd	Tucson	46	09/17/26
53rd	Stockton	46	09/17/26
53rd	Poughkeepsie	46	09/17/26
53rd	Augusta, Georgia	46	09/17/26
53rd	Harrisburg	46	09/17/26
59th	Pittsburgh	47	09/17/26
59th	San Francisco	47	09/17/26
61st	Hartford	48	09/17/26
62nd	San Diego	49	09/17/26
63rd	San Jose, California	51	09/17/26
64th	Seattle	52	09/17/26
64th	Washington DC	52	09/17/26
64th	Philadelphia	52	09/17/26
64th	Cleveland	52	09/17/26
64th	Toledo	52	09/17/26
69th	Asheville	53	09/17/26
69th	Columbus	53	09/17/26
69th	Baton Rouge	53	09/17/26
72nd	Dayton	54	09/17/26
73rd	Houston, Texas	55	09/17/26
73rd	Fresno	55	09/17/26
75th	El Paso	57	09/17/26
76th	Jackson, Mississippi	58	09/17/26
77th	Fayetteville, Arkansas	59	09/17/26
78th	Reno	61	09/17/26
78th	Indianapolis	61	09/17/26
78th	New York	61	09/17/26
78th	Columbia, South Carolina	61	09/17/26
78th	Wichita	61	09/17/26
83rd	Kansas City	62	09/17/26
83rd	Bakersfield	62	09/17/26
85th	Chattanooga	64	09/17/26
86th	Louisville	65	09/17/26
86th	Little Rock	65	09/17/26
88th	Cincinnati	67	09/17/26
88th	Oklahoma City	67	09/17/26
90th	Birmingham	74	09/17/26
90th	Tulsa	74	09/17/26
92nd	Huntsville, AL	77	09/17/26
92nd	Knoxville	77	09/17/26
94th	Durham	80	09/17/26
95th	Riverside	84	09/17/26
96th	Nashville	87	09/17/26
97th	St. Louis	93	09/17/26
98th	Memphis	97	09/17/26
99th	Raleigh	100	09/17/26
100th	Dallas, Texas	112	09/17/26
101st	Atlanta, Georgia	122	09/17/26
102nd	Greenville, SC	129	09/17/26
102nd	Charlotte, NC	129	09/17/26
102nd	Greensboro	129	09/17/26
102nd	Winston-Salem	129	09/17/26

Cite this

The Honest Local, Air quality right now across America, every city and state on one map, September 2026, https://thehonestlocal.com/map/aqi_now

Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Data last moved September 22, 2026. Each number's source and period sit on its ranking page, one click from its rank.

Sources and method

The map reads the same tables as every ranking on this site: the live tape (Zillow, realtor.com by way of FRED, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, AAA, AirNow, MERIC, the Census Bureau, the FBI, the EIA, the BEA), and The Honest Local's own scores (Sunshine, Heat, Cold, Snow, Clean Air, Bad Air, Disaster, Safety, Affordability), each a blend of at least two public sources. Cities and states rank on separate lists. A place with no reading is left grey rather than estimated.