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Air quality in Los Angeles

Los Angeles ranks #72 of 134 US cities for clean air, with a clean-air score of 47Some Fun. That puts it in the 47th percentile nationally and #13 of 18 in California.

clean-air score
47
Some Fun
National rank
#72 of 134
In California
#13 of 18
Percentile
47th

The typical city scores 50 for clean air; Los Angeles sits 3 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 Los Angeles

  1. T#64 Santa Ana, CA 50
  2. T#64 Stowe, VT 50
  3. #72 Los Angeles, CA — this page 47
  4. T#73 Atlanta, GA 45
  5. T#73 Charlotte, NC 45

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 Los Angeles

Los Angeles scores 38 overall (Some Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: