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Georgia air quality today

Updated · LIVE · 2 metros tracked

Across the 2 Georgia metros we measure, air is worst right now in Atlanta at AQI 85 (Moderate) and cleanest in Savannah at AQI 44. That is a 41-point spread inside one state — a state-level number would hide it, which is why this page does not publish one.

Every Georgia metro we track

#MetroAQIUV nowDominant
1 Atlanta 85Moderate 8.6 PM2.5
2 Savannahno page yet 44Good 8.2 PM2.5

Sun over Georgia today

The strongest UV in Georgia today is 8.6 (Very High) in Atlanta, arriving around 1pm local time. The mildest of the 2 metros we model here peaks at 8.2 in Savannah.

8.6 Atlanta 1pm8.2 Savannah 1pm

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

What stands behind these Georgia numbers

2 of the 2 metros here report from a named regulatory monitor — Atlanta, Savannah. The dominant pollutant across Georgia today is PM2.5.

We track 2 metropolitan areas in Georgia, not the whole state, and 1 of them has a page of its own. There is no state-wide average here on purpose: averaging 2 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 Georgia looks wrong the answer is often next door.

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

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