Port Stanley
#1≈ 0.1 vs 0.1 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Lake Erie fishing village turned beach town, with open-water air on the province’s south shore.
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Windsor (you are here) Good Moderate Unhealthy (sensitive) Unhealthy+
London
#2≈ 0.1 vs 0.1 🚬 at homeabout the same
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.
Cleveland
#3≈ 0.1 vs 0.1 🚬 at homeabout the same
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
A major Ohio city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
Grand Bend
#4≈ 0.2 vs 0.1 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Windsor
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Classic Lake Huron beach town with famous sunsets and prevailing onshore winds off the open lake.
Bayfield
#5≈ 0.6 vs 0.1 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Windsor
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Quiet heritage village on the Lake Huron bluffs, a slower-paced alternative to the bigger beach towns.
Goderich
#6≈ 0.6 vs 0.1 🚬 at homeabout the same
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Windsor
Observed Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Lakeside county town on high Huron bluffs, often swept clear by west winds off the water.
4.1 µg/m³PM2.5 in Windsor right now
AQI 149 / Unhealthy for sensitive groupsAQHI 3 — Low risk (Windsor Downtown)Latest observation Jul 18, 3:00 p.m. EDT
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0.1cigarettes
Standing outside for 12 hours in Windsor 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 Windsor, 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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