Kansas City, MO UV Index Today

Hour by hour today

Local time, midnight to midnight. Bar colour is the EPA UV band, never restyled.

Kansas City today, in numbers

Latitude

39.1°N — 63 of 121 from the north

Today's peak

6.6 (High) — 77 of 121 nationally

Peak arrives

2pm local (GMT-5)

At or above 6

1 hour, 2pm to 3pm

At or above 3

5 hours, 12pm to 5pm

The window from 2pm to 3pm is the practical answer for Kansas City today. Nationally today the spread runs 10.9 in Tucson (32°N) to 1.5 in Anchorage (61°N). Why latitude and the clock decide this →

Nearest metros we model

UV changes with latitude, not with a city boundary, so a neighbour a hundred miles north reads differently for a reason.

Where Kansas City sits on the scale

6.6 is High. EPA suggests shade between 10am and 4pm, plus a shirt and sunscreen. Today Kansas City also reaches High at its peak .

The scale is open-ended: 11 is where the named bands stop, not the maximum. All five bands, with the EPA guidance for each →

Modelled, not measured

The UV figures for Kansas City are computed by the Copernicus atmosphere model, not read off an instrument here — unlike the AQI on our air-quality pages, which comes from a regulatory monitor. Cloud is where a UV model is weakest. What that means in practice →