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Air quality in Colombia today

Updated Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:43:35 GMT

Good: average US AQI 43 across 38 cities Worst now: Facatativá (62); cleanest: Popayán (20).

Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Colombia, ranked from most polluted to cleanest.

Average US AQI: 43 Good
Most polluted now: Facatativá AQI 62
Cleanest now: Popayán AQI 20
Cities above 100: 0 unhealthy for sensitive groups or worse

Air quality in Colombia today

Right now the modelled air quality in Colombia averages a US AQI of 43 (Good) across the 38 cities we track. By category: 26 Good, 12 Moderate (of 38).

That is 22 points better than the worldwide average of 65 across 3,909 cities.

Facatativá has the worst air at 62 with PM2.5 at 11 µg/m³, while Popayán is cleanest at 20. No tracked city is above 100, the level where sensitive groups are advised to cut back outdoors.

Colombia cities by AQI (most polluted first)

City	Region	US AQI	Category	PM2.5 µg/m³	Ozone µg/m³
Facatativá	Cundinamarca	62	Moderate	11	101
Madrid, Cundinamarca	Cundinamarca	62	Moderate	11	101
Mosquera	Cundinamarca	62	Moderate	11	101
Funza	Cundinamarca	62	Moderate	11	101
Bogotá	Bogota D.C.	56	Moderate	6.4	69
Cúcuta	Norte de Santander Department	54	Moderate	8.7	96
Bucaramanga	Santander Department	53	Moderate	8.2	87
Villavicencio	Meta Department	53	Moderate	6.2	101
Soacha	Cundinamarca	52	Moderate	9	86
Ibagué	Tolima Department	52	Moderate	11	101
Barranquilla	Atlántico	51	Moderate	6.1	80
Soledad	Atlántico	51	Moderate	6.1	80
Manizales	Caldas Department	48	Good	7.3	75
Santa Marta	Magdalena Department	46	Good	5.2	87
Medellín	Antioquia	45	Good	6.4	73
Pereira	Risaralda Department	45	Good	7.9	79
Bello	Antioquia	45	Good	6.4	73
Itagüí	Antioquia	45	Good	6.4	73
Dosquebradas	Risaralda Department	45	Good	7.9	79
Envigado	Antioquia	45	Good	6.4	73
Zaragoza, Antioquia	Antioquia	44	Good	4.4	63
Florida, Valle del Cauca Department	Valle del Cauca Department	41	Good	8.7	78
Albania	La Guajira Department	40	Good	5.5	74
Cartagena	Bolívar	39	Good	7.2	70
Armenia	Quindío Department	39	Good	4.9	79
Montenegro, Quindío Department	Quindío Department	39	Good	4.9	79
Granada, Meta Department	Meta Department	38	Good	5.2	86
San Pablo, Bolívar	Bolívar	38	Good	4	60
Valledupar	Cesar Department	36	Good	2.5	70
Sincelejo	Sucre Department	35	Good	2.3	54
Neiva	Huila Department	33	Good	5.9	67
Cali	Valle del Cauca Department	30	Good	4.7	65
Palmira	Valle del Cauca Department	30	Good	4.7	65
Montería	Córdoba	25	Good	1.6	55
Puerto Rico	Caquetá	25	Good	3.1	58
Buenaventura	Valle del Cauca Department	23	Good	1.3	42
Pasto	Nariño	23	Good	3.7	49
Popayán	Cauca Department	20	Good	3.4	45

What the US AQI numbers mean

US AQI	Category	What it means
0-50	Good	Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no risk; a good time for outdoor activity.
51-100	Moderate	Acceptable for most people. Unusually sensitive people should consider shortening long or heavy exertion outdoors.
101-150	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	People with heart or lung disease, older adults, children and teens should cut back on prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors.
151-200	Unhealthy	Everyone should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors; sensitive groups should avoid it and keep windows closed.
201-300	Very Unhealthy	Health alert: everyone should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors, and sensitive groups should stay indoors.
301-500	Hazardous	Emergency conditions: everyone should avoid all outdoor physical activity and stay indoors with filtered air if possible. The scale tops out at 500; heavier dust or smoke is shown as 500.

Modelled by CAMS (Copernicus) via Open-Meteo, refreshed twice a day; read hour by hour from the forecast.

Data: Open-Meteo Air Quality API, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).

Air quality in Colombia today

Air quality in Colombia today

Colombia cities by AQI (most polluted first)

What the US AQI numbers mean

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