Whitney
#1≈ 0.1 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.3
▼ 13.8 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Hamlet at Algonquin Park’s East Gate, with lodges and cabins on the park’s quieter side.
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Peterborough
#2≈ 0.1 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.3
▼ 12.7 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
A major Ontario city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
Bobcaygeon
#3≈ 0.1 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.3
▼ 12.7 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Kawartha canal town spread across three islands between Pigeon and Sturgeon lakes.
Bancroft
#4≈ 0.1 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.3
▼ 11.8 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Mineral-country town on the York River between Hastings highlands and lake country.
Fenelon Falls
#5≈ 0.1 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.3
▼ 11.7 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
The “Jewel of the Kawarthas,” a falls-side village on the Trent–Severn Waterway.
Oshawa
#6≈ 0.1 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.3
▼ 11.5 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
A major Ontario city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
Haliburton
#7≈ 0.1 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.3
▼ 11.1 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Highlands village surrounded by hundreds of lakes and a large cottage-rental market.
Cobourg
#8≈ 0.2 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.2
▼ 9 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Victorian lakefront town with a long sandy beach an easy hop east of the GTA.
Pembroke
#9≈ 0.2 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.2
▼ 8.6 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Ottawa Valley hub on the wide Ottawa River, the jumping-off point for Whitewater country.
Prince Edward County
#10≈ 0.2 vs 0.4 🚬 at homesave 0.2
▼ 7.8 µg/m³ less fine-particle pollution than Kingston right now
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Island county of beaches, wineries and small hotels, surrounded on all sides by Lake Ontario air.
Westport
#11≈ 0.4 vs 0.4 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Village on Upper Rideau Lake in the hills of Rideau Lakes country, small but well-supplied with inns.
Perth
#12≈ 0.4 vs 0.4 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Stone-built heritage town on the Tay River, a calm base in the Rideau corridor.
Calabogie
#13≈ 0.4 vs 0.4 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Lake-and-highlands resort area in the Madawaska Valley with a four-season lodge scene.
Merrickville
#14≈ 0.5 vs 0.4 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Kingston
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Rideau Canal village of locks, galleries and B&Bs less than an hour from Ottawa.
Gananoque
#15≈ 0.5 vs 0.4 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Kingston
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Gateway to the Thousand Islands, with river breezes off the St. Lawrence and island cruises at the dock.
Ottawa
#16≈ 0.7 vs 0.4 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Kingston
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
A major Ontario city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
17.6 µg/m³PM2.5 in Kingston right now
AQI 65 / ModerateAQHI 9 — High risk (Kingston)Latest observation Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
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0.4cigarettes
Standing outside for 12 hours in Kingston today is roughly like smoking that many cigarettes, going by the current fine-particle pollution.
An equivalence for health impact, not literal smoking: Berkeley Earth puts a full day at 22 µg/m³ of PM2.5 at about one cigarette.How we work this out →
Why live rankings?
Smoke plumes are patchy and move with changing winds, terrain and weather. Nearby lakefront, coastal and higher-elevation places can be much clearer than Kingston, but no direction is reliably cleaner. That is why this list is recalculated from live PM2.5 readings every hour instead of publishing a fixed escape route. If everything within three hours is smoky, the rankings will say so. Sometimes the honest answer is to stay inside with a filter running.
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