National-Digital/act-air-quality

Air quality monitoring by hour, ACT

Hourly readings from the ACT's air quality monitoring stations at Civic, Florey and Monash since 2011, with particles, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and the Air Quality Index.

This is a copy of the 2026-10-13 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 387,521 rows and 22 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/act-air-quality/v/2026-10-13/ in 6 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Health Protection Service, ACT Health Directorate under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

ACT Health Directorate, ACT Government, Air Quality Monitoring Data, https://www.data.act.gov.au/d/94a5-zqnn, accessed 12 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

ACT Health Directorate, ACT Government, Air Quality Monitoring Data, https://www.data.act.gov.au/d/94a5-zqnn, accessed 12 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/act-air-quality/v/2026-10-13/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/act-air-quality/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/act-air-quality", revision="v2026-10-13") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/act-air-quality/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Name
gps	string	The publisher's own text of the station's coordinates, as (latitude, longitude).
datetime	datetime	Local time in Canberra, as the publisher gives it.
no2	number	Nitrogen dioxide, 1-hour average in parts per million.
o3_1hr	number	O3_1hr
o3_4hr	number	4-hour rolling average in parts per million.
o3_8hr	number	8-hour rolling average.
co	number	Carbon monoxide, 8-hour rolling average in parts per million.
pm10_1hr	number	PM10 1 hr
pm2_5_1hr	number	PM2.5 1 hr
pm10	number	PM10
pm2_5	number	PM2.5
aqi_co	number	AQI_CO
aqi_no2	number	AQI_NO2
aqi_o3_1hr	number	AQI_O3_1hr
aqi_o3_4hr	number	AQI_O3_4hr
aqi_o3_8hr	number	AQI_O3_8hr
aqi_pm10	number	24-hour rolling PM10 index.
aqi_pm2_5	number	24-hour rolling PM2.5 index.
aqi_site	number	AQI_Site
date	date	Date
time	string	24-hour time as the publisher types it.

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.