El Paso, TX · the CityFunIndex

Air quality in El Paso

El Paso ranks T#113 of 134 US cities for clean air, with a clean-air score of 16Quiet. That puts it in the 16th percentile nationally and #7 of 13 in Texas.

clean-air score
16
Quiet
National rank
T#113 of 134
In Texas
#7 of 13
Percentile
16th

The typical city scores 50 for clean air; El Paso sits 34 points below the median.

How air quality is measured

Recent particulate matter and ozone levels — a trailing-week air-quality average.

The clean-air score is the flip side of our air quality measure — 100 minus the raw air quality score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: EPA AirNow and OpenAQ pollution readings (seven-day trailing average).

Ranked around El Paso

  1. T#111 Chicago, IL 17
  2. T#111 Sioux Falls, SD 17
  3. T#113 El Paso, TX — this page 16
  4. #115 Bismarck, ND 15
  5. T#116 Houston, TX 14

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Top US cities for clean air

  1. #1 Anchorage, AK 100
  2. #2 Bend, OR 99
  3. T#3 Lubbock, TX 98
  4. T#3 Telluride, CO 98
  5. #5 Montgomery, AL 97

More about El Paso

El Paso scores 21 overall (Quiet) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: