Air quality in United States
Air quality in New Mexico today
Updated
Good: average US AQI 36 across 6 cities in New Mexico Worst now: Farmington (40); cleanest: Carlsbad, NM (34).
Live US AQI, PM2.5 and ozone for cities across New Mexico, compared with the United States average.
- Average US AQI
- 36 Good
- United States average
- 52 747 cities
- Most polluted now
- Farmington AQI 40
- Cleanest now
- Carlsbad, NM AQI 34
- Cities above 100
- 0
Air quality in New Mexico today
Right now the modelled air quality in New Mexico averages a US AQI of 36 (Good) across the 6 cities we track. By category: 6 Good (of 6).
That is 16 points cleaner than the United States average of 52, ranking 8 of 51 states from cleanest to most polluted.
Farmington has the worst air at 40 (PM2.5 4.8 µg/m³), and Carlsbad, NM the cleanest at 34. No tracked city is above 100, so no group needs to change plans.
New Mexico cities by AQI (most polluted first)
| City | US AQI | Category | PM2.5 µg/m³ | PM10 µg/m³ | Ozone µg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmington | 40 | Good | 4.8 | 7 | 89 |
| Las Cruces | 37 | Good | 3.5 | 4 | 72 |
| Albuquerque | 36 | Good | 2.8 | 3 | 74 |
| Santa Fe | 36 | Good | 2.7 | 3 | 71 |
| Roswell | 35 | Good | 2.9 | 4 | 75 |
| Carlsbad | 34 | Good | 3.8 | 6 | 77 |
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.
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Data: Open-Meteo Air Quality API, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).