Today’s air in Middlesbrough in plain words, plus pollen in season — updated through the day.
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How clean is the air in Middlesbrough today, in plain words — updated through the day, with grass and birch pollen in season.
Fair Fine for being outside, including exercise, for almost everyone.
Peak modelled counts for today. Hay fever symptoms typically start when counts pass about 50 grains/m³ — grass is the one that affects most people in the UK (May–July); birch is a spring tree pollen (March–May).
| Pollen | Level | Peak today |
|---|---|---|
| Grass | Low | 8 grains/m³ |
| Birch | Low | 0 grains/m³ |
| Day | Air quality | Grass pollen |
|---|---|---|
| Wed 15 Jul | Fair | Low |
| Thu 16 Jul | Fair | Low |
| Fri 17 Jul | Fair | Low |
| Sat 18 Jul | Fair | — |
Middlesbrough sits beside one of the UK’s biggest clusters of chemical and process industry on the River Tees. Most days the air is fine, but the mix of industry, traffic and still, cold winter weather is why people here keep an eye on it.
The reading comes from a Europe-wide computer model on a roughly 10 km grid, not a sensor on your street. Treat it as the general picture for the area, and check the official DEFRA forecast for detail or if you have a health condition.
Updated . These are modelled estimates for the area around Middlesbrough town centre, not readings from a street monitor — air right beside a busy road can be worse than the area-wide picture. Official forecast: uk-air.defra.gov.uk. Air quality data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), based on Copernicus CAMS.