See what the smoke in Winnipeg is really doing to your lungs, then find cleaner air within a drive you choose.
Pin your block or inspect another neighborhood. We compare the local air first, then weather, sunlight and the drive.
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Finding the nicest days and reachable cities.
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Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
A major Saskatchewan city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
Compact prairie city west of Regina with historic hotels and easy highway access.
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
Lake Winnipeg harbour town with beaches, inns and open-water exposure north of Winnipeg.
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Winnipeg
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
Lake Superior port with shoreline hotels and air shaped by the world’s largest freshwater lake.
▲ Air is currently worse here than in Winnipeg
Observed Jul 18, 5:00 p.m. EDT
A major Ontario city with broad lodging options and live air-quality readings for comparison when smoke shifts across the region.
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Air quality · Winnipeg
Phew. Twelve hours out here is roughlyPM2.5 here is 11 µg/m³.Berkeley Earth: 22 µg/m³ for 24 h ≈ 1 cigarette.12 h outside ≈ 11/22 × 0.5 = 0.3 cigarettes.A health-impact equivalence, not literal smoking.See how we work it out →
That is the fine-particle pollution you'd breathe standing outside all day inWinnipeg right now, turned into a number your body already understands.
A health-impact equivalence, 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
Smoke plumes are patchy and move with changing winds, terrain and weather. Nearby lakefront, coastal and higher-elevation places can be much clearer than Winnipeg, 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.