Kauai's sunny south-shore resort strip, cooled by steady trade winds off the open Pacific.
About the same air — still smoky.
PM2.5 is 4.7 µg/m³ here vs 5.6 back home.Berkeley Earth: 22 µg/m³ for 24 h ≈ 1 cigarette.A week at these levels: 4.7/22 × 7 = 1.5 here; 5.6/22 × 7 = 1.8 at home.A long-term health-risk equivalence, not literal smoking.See how we work it out →
Why live rankings? Smoke plumes are patchy and shift with the wind, so no direction is reliably cleaner. This list is recalculated from live PM2.5 every hour — and if everything nearby is smoky, it says so.