Today's air quality and, in season, birch and grass pollen for Lund — updated hourly.
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Lund sits on the flat, open Scanian plain — no valley to trap smoke and no wildfire season, so the story here is mostly pollen, not particulates.
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 | 17 grains/m³ |
| Birch | Low | 0 grains/m³ |
| Day | Air quality | Grass pollen |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 31 Jul | Moderate | Moderate |
| Sat 1 Aug | Fair | Low |
| Sun 2 Aug | Fair | Low |
| Mon 3 Aug | Moderate | — |
Skåne's birch and grass pollen seasons (typically April for birch, May–July for grass) are the recurring air complaint in a flat university town with heavy cycling traffic and no major industry upwind.
Updated . These are modelled estimates for the area around central Lund, not readings from a street monitor — air right beside a busy road can be worse than the area-wide picture. Official forecast: smhi.se. Air quality data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), based on Copernicus CAMS.