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Air quality in Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach ranks T#42 of 134 US cities for clean air, with a clean-air score of 68 — Fun. That puts it in the 69th percentile nationally and T#2 of 4 in Virginia.

clean-air score
68
Fun
National rank
T#42 of 134
In Virginia
T#2 of 4
Percentile
69th

The typical city scores 50 for clean air; Virginia Beach sits 18 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 Virginia Beach

  1. T#39 Winston-Salem, NC 71
  2. #41 Wilmington, DE 70
  3. T#42 Virginia Beach, VA — this page 68
  4. #45 Birmingham, AL 67
  5. #46 Little Rock, AR 66

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 Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach scores 49 overall (Some Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: