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Air quality in Kansas City

Kansas City ranks #97 of 134 US cities for clean air, with a clean-air score of 28 — Quiet. That puts it in the 28th percentile nationally and #1 of 2 in Missouri.

clean-air score
28
Quiet
National rank
#97 of 134
In Missouri
#1 of 2
Percentile
28th

The typical city scores 50 for clean air; Kansas City sits 22 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).

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Kansas City

  1. T#95 Indianapolis, IN 29
  2. T#95 Sedona, AZ 29
  3. #97 Kansas City, MO — this page 28
  4. T#98 Albuquerque, NM 26
  5. T#98 Philadelphia, PA 26

See the full leaderboard — Cities with the cleanest air →

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 Kansas City

Kansas City scores 65 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: