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Air Quality Forecast for Lothian

Forecast published on Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0000.

Values are for predicted maximum pollution levels, ranging from 1 (lowest pollution, best air quality) to 10 (highest pollution, worst air quality).

Colour key: Lowest pollution Highest pollution

Defra monitoring locations are shown by

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Forecast locations in Lothian

Location Today Tomorrow Thursday Friday Saturday
Armadale 2 2 2 2 2
Barnton 2 2 2 2 2
Bathgate 2 2 2 2 2
Belhaven Bay 2 2 2 2 3
Blackburn S Wks 2 2 2 2 2
Blackhall 2 2 2 2 2
Bonnyrigg 2 2 2 2 2
Broadsands (beach) 2 2 2 2 3
Broxburn 2 2 2 2 2
Burdiehouse 2 2 2 2 2
Clermiston 2 2 2 2 2
Colinton 2 2 2 2 2
Corstorphine 2 2 2 2 2
Corstorphine Hill 2 2 2 2 2
Craiglockhart 2 2 2 2 2
Cramond 2 2 2 2 2
Cramond Bridge 2 2 2 2 2
Currie 2 2 2 2 2
Dalkeith 2 2 2 2 2
Davidson's Mains 2 2 2 2 2
Dirleton Castle Garden 2 2 2 2 3
Drylaw 2 2 2 2 2
Duddingston 2 2 2 2 2
Dunbar 2 2 2 2 3
Edinburgh 2 2 2 2 2
Edinburgh Airport 2 2 2 2 2
Edinburgh Bruntsfield Youth Hostel 2 2 2 2 2
Edinburgh Central Youth Hostel 2 2 2 2 2
Edinburgh Eglinton Youth Hostel 2 2 2 2 2
Edinburgh/gogarbank 2 2 2 2 2
Edinburgh Pleasance Youth Hostel 2 2 2 2 2
Fairmilehead 2 2 2 2 2
Gilmerton 2 2 2 2 2
Gorebridge 2 2 2 2 3
Gracemount 2 2 2 2 2
Granton 2 2 2 2 2
Gullane 2 2 2 2 3
Gullane (beach) 2 2 2 2 3
Haddington 2 2 2 2 2
Heart Of Midlothian F.c. 2 2 2 2 2
Hibernian F.c. 2 2 2 2 2
Hopetoun House 2 2 2 2 2
Inch 2 2 2 2 2
Inveresk Lodge Garden 2 2 2 2 2
Joppa 2 2 2 2 2
Juniper Green 2 2 2 2 2
Kaimes 2 2 2 2 2
Leith 2 2 2 2 2
Liberton 2 2 2 2 2
Linlithgow 2 2 2 2 2
Livingston 2 2 2 2 2
Livingston F.c. 2 2 2 2 2
Loanhead 2 2 2 2 2
Longniddry (beach) 2 2 2 2 2
Longstone 2 2 2 2 2
Malleny House 2 2 2 2 2
Midlothian Ski Centre 2 2 2 2 2
Monktonhall 2 2 2 2 2
Moredun 2 2 2 2 2
Morningside 2 2 2 2 2
Muirfield (hon Company Of Edinburgh Golfers) 2 2 2 2 3
Murrayfield (edinburgh) 2 2 2 2 2
Murrayfield (stadium) 2 2 2 2 2
Musselburgh 2 2 2 2 2
Musselburgh Racecourse 2 2 2 2 2
Newtongrange 2 2 2 2 3
North Berwick 2 2 2 2 3
Peffersands (beach) 2 2 2 2 3
Penicuik 2 2 2 2 3
Portobello - Central (james Street) (beach) 2 2 2 2 2
Portobello (edinburgh) 2 2 2 2 2
Prestonfield 2 2 2 2 2
Prestonpans 2 2 2 2 2
Queensferry (edinburgh) 2 2 2 2 2
Ravelston 2 2 2 2 2
Restalrig 2 2 2 2 2
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh 2 2 2 2 2
Royal Highland Showground 2 2 2 2 2
Seacliff (beach) 2 2 2 2 3
Seton Sands, Longniddry (beach) 2 2 2 2 2
Sighthill 2 2 2 2 2
Silverknowes 2 2 2 2 2
Stenhouse 2 2 2 2 2
St Mary's Pleasance Haddington 2 2 2 2 2
Suntrap 2 2 2 2 2
Thorntonloch (beach) 2 2 2 2 3
Tranent 2 2 2 2 2
Tyninghame House 2 2 2 2 3
Whitburn 2 2 2 2 3
Whitesands Bay (beach) 2 2 2 2 3

Defra Air Quality Monitoring Stations in Lothian

Location Latest Data Date/Time Running 8 Hour mean Ozone
(µgm-3)
Hourly mean Nitrogen dioxide
(µgm-3)
Max 15 min mean Sulphur dioxide
(µgm-3)
Running 24 Hour mean PM2.5 Particles
(µgm-3)
Running 24 Hour mean PM10 Particles
(µgm-3)
ValueLevelValueLevelValueLevelValueLevelValueLevel
Bush Estate 2025-01-21 08:00:00 43 2 Low 5 1 Low
Auchencorth Moss 2025-01-21 08:00:00 47 2 Low 4 1 Low 5 1 Low*2
Edinburgh St Leonards 2025-01-21 08:00:00 26 1 Low 3 1 Low 6 1 Low 8 1 Low*2

Coloured boxes for value and level show latest snapshot data. A grey box indicates that this data is not measured at this location. A white box indicates that data is normally recorded here, but is missing from the latest snapshot. Follow the links to individual stations for historical data.

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