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New Mexico air quality today

Updated · LIVE · 2 metros tracked

Across the 2 New Mexico metros we measure, air is worst right now in Las Cruces at AQI 53 (Moderate) and cleanest in Albuquerque at AQI 44.

Every New Mexico metro we track

#MetroAQIUV nowDominant
1 Las Crucesno page yet 53Moderate 8.3 PM2.5
2 Albuquerque 44Good 8.2 O3

Sun over New Mexico today

The strongest UV in New Mexico today is 10.9 (Extreme) in Las Cruces, arriving around 1pm local time. The mildest of the 2 metros we model here peaks at 10.2 in Albuquerque.

10.9 Las Cruces 1pm10.2 Albuquerque 12pm

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

What stands behind these New Mexico numbers

2 of the 2 metros here report from a named regulatory monitor — Albuquerque, Las Cruces. The dominant pollutant across New Mexico today is O3 in some metros, PM2.5 in others.

We track 2 metropolitan areas in New Mexico, 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 New Mexico looks wrong the answer is often next door.

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

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