Metro area air quality · 2025
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Median AQI 50 (Good). 50.4% of monitored days rated Good across this metro's EPA monitoring network.
- 50
- Median AQI
- 50.4%
- Good-air days
- 0
- Unhealthy days
- 12%
- Cleaner than US metros
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL posted a 2025 median AQI of 50 (Good) with 50.4% Good days
According to the U.S. EPA Air Quality System, the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL CBSA recorded a median AQI of 50 across 365 monitored days in 2025, with 50.4% 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL CBSA's 50.4% Good-day share places it cleaner than 12% of US metros in 2025.
- Closest median-AQI peer
- Fort Collins, CO (50.7% Good, median AQI 50) is the closest nationwide median-AQI peer to Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL.
- 2020–2025 Good-day shift
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL's Good-day share moved +5.0 points from 2020 to 2025 (median AQI -2).
- Median AQI
- Median AQI: 50
Aggregated from EPA Air Quality System (2025), 365 monitored days. EPA AQS →
The verdict
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL lands in the lower Good-day tercile (50.4% Good), a thinner clean-air share than most CBSA peers here. On the EPA scale the metro runs good, among the more polluted US metros, with a median AQI of 50 and 50.4% of 365 monitored days in the Good band.
- 50
- median AQI · Good
- 50.4%
- days rated Good
- 12%
- cleaner than US metros
- 129
- 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
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro's Good-day share rose from 46.8% to 50.7% between the 2024 and 2025 EPA annual releases, a change of +3.9 percentage points.
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro's peak single-day AQI fell from 143 to 129 between the 2024 and 2025 EPA annual releases, a change of -14 points.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL lands in the lower Good-day tercile (50.4% Good), a thinner clean-air share than most CBSA peers here. Signature read: 50.4% Good-day share (low tercile vs CBSA corpus). Aggregated EPA AQS monitors across this Core-Based Statistical Area logged a median Air Quality Index of 50 over 365 measured days in 2025 (Good / Moderate). The monitored-day split lands at 184 Good (50%), 179 Moderate (49%), and 2 Unhealthy-for-Sensitive-Groups (1%). The 90th-percentile AQI finished at 64; the highest single-day reading hit 129 (USG).
Across 2020–2025, Good-day share shifted +5.0 points and median AQI moved -2 (improving). No Unhealthy-tier days appear in this annual dataset. Metros with comparable AQI profiles include Fort Collins, CO (50.7% good, AQI 50); Madera, CA (50.4% good, AQI 50); Merced, CA (51.0% good, AQI 50).
Air Quality Summary
Median AQI
50
Good
Good Days
50.4%
184 of 365 days
Max AQI
129
USG
Health Grade
Moderate
90th pct: 64
AQI Day Breakdown (2025)
Distribution of 365 monitored days across EPA AQI categories.
Good
184
50%
Moderate
179
49%
USG
2
1%
Unhealthy
0
0%
Very Unhealthy
0
0%
Hazardous
0
0%
Health Impact Assessment
The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro area's air quality is rated Moderate based on 50.4% 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro compare?
How Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL compares
5-Year Air Quality Trend
Air quality is improving in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro. Highest Good-day share: 2025 (50.7%, 184 of 363 monitored days).
| Year | Good | Moderate | Unhealthy | Median AQI | Max AQI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 166 | 197 | 0 | 52 | 112 |
| 2021 | 160 | 204 | 0 | 52 | 129 |
| 2022 | 165 | 199 | 0 | 51 | 126 |
| 2023 | 144 | 216 | 0 | 52 | 114 |
| 2024 | 167 | 190 | 0 | 51 | 143 |
| 2025 | 184 | 179 | 0 | 50 | 129 |
Metros with a similar median AQI
CBSA peers nationwide whose annual median AQI sits near Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL (50).
Fort Collins, CO
Median AQI 50 · 50.7% Good-day share
Madera, CA
Median AQI 50 · 50.4% Good-day share
Merced, CA
Median AQI 50 · 51.0% Good-day share
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
Median AQI 50 · 51.2% Good-day share
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
Median AQI 50 · 52.0% Good-day share
Reno, NV
Median AQI 50 · 50.1% Good-day share
Metros with similar unhealthy-day exposure
A second relationship type: metros whose unhealthy-or-worse day count is closest to Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL'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 for Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL, 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, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL · 2020–2025