Air quality

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Air quality indicators track ambient concentrations of fine particulate matter, ground-level ozone, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and volatile organic compounds at the national and regional levels as well as at local monitoring stations. The national and regional indicators are presented with their corresponding Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standard when available. Canadians are exposed to air pollutants on a daily basis, and this exposure can cause adverse health and environmental effects. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: static and interactive maps, charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.



Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

Basic view

Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
9e81ba21-564d-43ca-964b-3225ae65adda XML
Date Stamp
2026-02-03T14:00:27.04Z
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Environment and Climate Change Canada

 

Data identification

Title

Air quality
Date (Publication)
2026-01-29
Date (Creation)
2016-02-16
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Metadata language

fra; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Location
  • Health
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Annually
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators

Keywords

Theme

  • environmental indicators, air and climate, air quality, ambient levels, air pollutants, fine particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds, average concentrations, peak concentrations, national, regional, Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards, Monitoring Station

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Air quality

  • Atmospheric emissions

  • Environmental indicators

  • Pollutants

  • Air pollution

  • Sustainable development

Geography

  • National (CA)

  • Airshed – Northern Region

  • Airshed - West Central Region

  • Airshed - East Central Region

  • Airshed – Prairie Region

  • Airshed – Western Region

  • Airshed - Southern Atlantic Region

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Sustainability Directorate
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
2009-01-01
End Date
2023-12-31

Extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail




 
 

Distribution

Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Public Inquiries Centre

 
 

Overviews

thumbnail

Keywords

environmental indicators, air and climate, air quality, ambient levels, air pollutants, fine particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds, average concentrations, peak concentrations, national, regional, Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards, Monitoring Station
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

Air pollution Air quality Atmospheric emissions Environmental indicators Pollutants Sustainable development
external.theme.EC_Directorate

Sustainability Directorate


Provided by

Share on social sites