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Air quality in Raleigh

Raleigh ranks T#56 of 134 US cities for clean air, with a clean-air score of 58 — Fun. That puts it in the 59th percentile nationally and #4 of 6 in North Carolina.

clean-air score
58
Fun
National rank
T#56 of 134
In North Carolina
#4 of 6
Percentile
59th

The typical city scores 50 for clean air; Raleigh sits 8 points above 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 Raleigh

  1. T#52 New York, NY 61
  2. T#52 Newark, NJ 61
  3. T#56 Raleigh, NC — this page 58
  4. #58 San Jose, CA 57
  5. T#59 Boise, ID 56

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 Raleigh

Raleigh scores 64 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: