Rhode Island air quality today

Every Rhode Island metro we track

Sun over Rhode Island today

The strongest UV in Rhode Island today is 7 (High) in Warwick, arriving around 1pm local time. The mildest of the 2 metros we model here peaks at 6.8 in Providence.

UV is modelled, not measured — unlike the AQI above it, which comes off an instrument. How we handle UV →

What stands behind these Rhode Island numbers

2 of the 2 metros here report from a named regulatory monitor — Providence, Providence. The dominant pollutant across Rhode Island today is PM2.5.

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