{"id":800982,"date":"2026-07-14T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800982\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:06:24","slug":"these-canadian-cities-rank-among-the-most-polluted-in-the-world-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800982\/","title":{"rendered":"These Canadian cities rank among the most polluted in the world | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like several cities in Canada have some work to do when it comes to dealing with pollution.<\/p>\n

IQAir provides real-time air quality data from over 80,000 monitoring sensors worldwide.<\/p>\n

As of 12 p.m. on Monday, two Canadian cities rank among the top 50 most polluted in the world.<\/p>\n

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Toronto is in 22nd place with an AQI of 81, which, according to IQAir, is a moderate level of pollution. It ties with Cairo, Egypt, and Doha, Qatar, and sits just above Singapore.<\/p>\n

Montreal follows closely behind in 34th place with an AQI of 68, which is also a moderate level of pollution.<\/p>\n

The top three most polluted cities in the world are Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Dhaka, Bangladesh. They all have AQI between 160 and 183, which is considered unhealthy on IQAir\u2019s scale.<\/p>\n

Only one Canadian city cracked the top five for the cleanest destinations around the world.<\/p>\n

As of 12 p.m., Vancouver sits in fourth place among the cleanest cities in the world with an AQI of 15. According to IQ Air, a score of 0 to 50 is considered good air quality.<\/p>\n

Melbourne, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Sydney, Australia, round out the top three for cleanest air quality around the world.<\/p>\n

Last week, Metro Vancouver issued an air quality warning<\/a> due to wildfire smoke.<\/p>\n

Check out IQAir\u2019s full live air quality rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looks like several cities in Canada have some work to do when it comes to dealing with pollution.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-800982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}