Air quality in United States

Air quality in Georgia today

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

Good: average US AQI 40 across 19 cities in Georgia Worst now: Macon (44); cleanest: Athens, GA (36).

Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across Georgia, compared with the United States average.

Right now the modelled air quality in Georgia averages a US AQI of 40 (Good) across the 19 cities we track. By category: 19 Good (of 19).

That is 11 points cleaner than the United States average of 51, ranking 13 of 51 states from cleanest to most polluted.

Macon has the worst air at 44 (PM2.5 12 µg/m³), and Athens, GA the cleanest at 36. No tracked city is above 100, so no group needs to change plans.

Georgia cities by AQI (most polluted first)

City	US AQI	Category	PM2.5 µg/m³	PM10 µg/m³	Ozone µg/m³
Macon	44	Good	12.4	16	81
Savannah	42	Good	9.8	15	83
Rome	42	Good	8	10	81
Atlanta	41	Good	10.7	13	73
Augusta	41	Good	8.1	11	75
Evans	41	Good	8.1	11	75
Union City	41	Good	10.7	13	73
Sandy Springs	40	Good	9.1	12	76
Roswell	40	Good	9.1	12	76
Marietta	40	Good	9.1	12	76
Smyrna	40	Good	9.1	12	76
Gainesville	40	Good	7.8	10	76
Kennesaw	40	Good	9.1	12	76
Duluth	40	Good	9.1	12	76
Canton	40	Good	7.8	10	76
Columbus	39	Good	9.9	13	80
Albany	38	Good	7.9	11	80
Valdosta	38	Good	8.4	12	81
Athens	36	Good	8.8	12	70

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.