Metro area air quality · 2025
Ponce, PR
Median AQI 3 (Good). 91.4% of monitored days rated Good across this metro's EPA monitoring network.
- 3
- Median AQI
- 91.4%
- Good-air days
- 0
- Unhealthy days
- 89%
- Cleaner than US metros
Ponce, PR posted a 2025 median AQI of 3 (Good) with 91.4% Good days
According to the U.S. EPA Air Quality System, the Ponce, PR CBSA recorded a median AQI of 3 across 257 monitored days in 2025, with 91.4% rated Good and 0 unhealthy or worse. This is an annual metro comparison, not a live advisory.
Data source EPA Air Quality System (AQS)
- Cleaner than US metros
- The Ponce, PR CBSA's 91.4% Good-day share places it cleaner than 89% of US metros in 2025.
- Closest median-AQI peer
- Evanston, WY (100.0% Good, median AQI 9) is the closest nationwide median-AQI peer to Ponce, PR.
- 2020–2025 Good-day shift
- Ponce, PR's Good-day share moved +2.8 points from 2020 to 2025 (median AQI -20).
- Median AQI
- Median AQI: 3
Aggregated from EPA Air Quality System (2025), 257 monitored days. EPA AQS →
The verdict
The Ponce, PR metro runs good on the EPA scale, cleaner than most US metros, a median AQI of 3 with 91.4% of 257 monitored days in the Good band.
- 3
- median AQI · Good
- 91.4%
- days rated Good
- 89%
- cleaner than US metros
- 74
- worst single reading
No day crossed into the Unhealthy tier across the metro's monitors in 2025.
Annual release change
What changed in the 2025 EPA annual release
- Ponce, PR metro's Good-day share fell from 94.3% to 91.4% between the 2024 and 2025 EPA annual releases, a change of -2.9 percentage points.
Insights: Ponce, PR metro. Aggregated EPA AQS monitors across this Core-Based Statistical Area logged a median Air Quality Index of 3 over 257 measured days in 2025, which corresponds to a Good band and a Excellent metro-wide health grade. The monitored-day split lands at 235 Good days (91%), 22 Moderate (9%), and 0 Unhealthy-for-Sensitive-Groups (0%). The 90th-percentile AQI finished at 42 while the highest single-day reading hit 74 (Moderate). Metro residents averaged roughly 27.4 clean-air days per 30-day window across the reporting year.
Across the 2020–2025 trend window, the share of monitored days rated Good shifted by +2.8 points (measured against 360 monitored days in 2020 and 257 in 2025, so raw day counts are not comparable) and the median AQI moved -20 points, which classifies the multi-year trajectory as improving. The metro recorded no Unhealthy-tier days in this annual dataset. Metros with comparable AQI profiles include Evanston, WY (100.0% good, AQI 9); Mayaguez, PR (97.8% good, AQI 9); Santa Rosa, CA (100.0% good, AQI 9).
Air Quality Summary
Median AQI
3
Good
Good Days
91.4%
235 of 257 days
Max AQI
74
Moderate
Health Grade
Excellent
90th pct: 42
AQI Day Breakdown (2025)
Distribution of 257 monitored days across EPA AQI categories.
Good
235
91%
Moderate
22
9%
USG
0
0%
Unhealthy
0
0%
Very Unhealthy
0
0%
Hazardous
0
0%
Health Impact Assessment
The Ponce, PR metro area's air quality is rated Excellent based on 91.4% good air days. No unhealthy air days were recorded in 2025.
Air quality is generally acceptable. Unusually sensitive people should monitor real-time conditions at AirNow.gov during high-pollution events.
How does the Ponce, PR metro compare?
How Ponce, PR compares
5-Year Air Quality Trend
Air quality is improving in the Ponce, PR metro. Highest Good-day share: 2024 (94.3%, 317 of 336 monitored days).
| Year | Good | Moderate | Unhealthy | Median AQI | Max AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 319 | 41 | 0 | 23 | 81 |
| 2021 | 176 | 37 | 1 | 30 | 380 |
| 2022 | 264 | 31 | 0 | 18 | 99 |
| 2023 | 258 | 82 | 0 | 30 | 83 |
| 2024 | 317 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 82 |
| 2025 | 235 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 74 |
Metros with a similar median AQI
CBSA peers nationwide whose annual median AQI sits near Ponce, PR (3).
Evanston, WY
Median AQI 9 · 100.0% Good-day share
Mayaguez, PR
Median AQI 9 · 97.8% Good-day share
Santa Rosa, CA
Median AQI 9 · 100.0% Good-day share
Bozeman, MT
Median AQI 11 · 98.1% Good-day share
Show Low, AZ
Median AQI 13 · 99.5% Good-day share
Havre, MT
Median AQI 14 · 92.1% Good-day share
Metros with similar unhealthy-day exposure
A second relationship type: metros whose unhealthy-or-worse day count is closest to Ponce, PR's 0 (independent of median AQI).
Aberdeen, SD
0 unhealthy-or-worse days · median AQI 27
Aberdeen, WA
0 unhealthy-or-worse days · median AQI 22
Adrian, MI
0 unhealthy-or-worse days · median AQI 41
Akron, OH
0 unhealthy-or-worse days · median AQI 45
Albany, GA
0 unhealthy-or-worse days · median AQI 46
Albany, OR
0 unhealthy-or-worse days · median AQI 27
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Data Sources
Primary Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Air Quality System (AQS), Annual AQI by CBSA dataset, 2020–2025. See our methodology for how AQI, median, and coverage figures are computed.
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Source: U.S. EPA Air Quality System (AQS) Annual AQI by CBSA summary files (metro-level) · 2020–2025
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