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Florida air quality today

Updated · LIVE · 4 metros tracked

Across the 4 Florida metros we measure, air is worst right now in Miami at AQI 89 (Moderate) and cleanest in Tampa at AQI 54. That is a 35-point spread inside one state — a state-level number would hide it, which is why this page does not publish one.

Every Florida metro we track

#MetroAQIUV nowDominant
1 Miamino page yet 89Moderate 10.2 PM2.5
2 Jacksonvilleno page yet 58Moderate 8.4 PM2.5
3 Orlandono page yet 55Moderate 8.9 PM2.5
4 Tampano page yet 54Moderate 9.1 PM2.5

Sun over Florida today

The strongest UV in Florida today is 10.2 (Very High) in Miami, arriving around 1pm local time. The mildest of the 4 metros we model here peaks at 8.4 in Jacksonville.

10.2 Miami 1pm9.1 Tampa 1pm8.9 Orlando 1pm8.4 Jacksonville 1pm

UV is modelled, not measured — unlike the AQI above it, which comes off an instrument. Hour by hour in Miami →

What stands behind these Florida numbers

4 of the 4 metros here report from a named regulatory monitor. The dominant pollutant across Florida today is PM2.5.

We track 4 metropolitan areas in Florida, not the whole state, and none of them has its own page yet — a metro page ships only after thirty days of our own history, and that clock is running. There is no state-wide average here on purpose: averaging 4 metros into one figure would invent a value for all the ground between them. How we measure, and what we refuse to estimate →

Neighbouring states

Smoke and inversions do not stop at a state line, so when Florida looks wrong the answer is often next door.

AlabamaGeorgia
Worst air in the US right nowHow Florida compares against every metro we track What the number meansEPA bands, and where “unhealthy for everyone” starts

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