Air Quality Information
for the Sacramento Region
Brought to you by the Sacramento Metropolitan, El Dorado,
Feather River, Placer and Yolo-Solano Air Districts
AQI Forecast by County
Thursday, September 20
| Thu | Fri | |
| El Dorado | 80 | 100 |
| Placer | 77 | 100 |
| Sacramento | 71 | 84 |
| Yolo-Solano | 48 | 54 |
Air Quality Map
The map below is a 1-hour snapshot. Click to view all hours recorded since midnight.
Games and Activities
Welcome to our Games and Activities page. We've featured links to educational
resources for teachers and students to learn about air pollution, its causes, and solutions.
Save Planet Polluto CD-ROM and Website
Save Planet Polluto is a free, interactive CD-ROM adventure created to teach children
about air pollution and its impacts on their lives. Through a variety of challenging
games with fun, memorable characters, children will learn:
- Air quality terms
- Air Quality Index (AQI)
- Health effects of air pollution
- How to maintain a car's engine
- How to make healthy land use and transportation choices
- How ground-level ozone and particulate matter are formed
Play on-line games and order your own free copy of the award-winning CD-ROM adventure.
Smog City
SmogCity2.com shows kids how transportation choices,
environment factors and land use affect air pollution levels.
The player controls weather, traffic
conditions, industry growth, use of consumer products, and population.
The results show children how pollution increases or decreases and how health is affected depending on their choices.
The power to control pollution is in your hands!
Climate Kids
This fun, game-filled site is produced by the Earth Science Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology.
Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Use real-time, on-line air quality data
to discover the science behind the causes and effects of ground-level ozone.
It's an educational project for students grades 6-12 that includes teacher resources.
Acid Rain Student's Site
This U.S. EPA site is designed to broadly teach students about acid rain, its cause and the various effects it has on humans, buildings and the environment.