Pollen today
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Google gave no index for tree, grass or weed pollen here today.
Next four days, highest level each day:
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleGoogle Maps
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleIncludes data from Google Maps
Google’s index for each plant it models in Albany today. A plant out of season has no index.
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleGoogle Maps
The forecast that moves pollen around, and the air beside it.
Forecast: National Weather Service, updated 1:36 pm ET.
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Each thread is one kind of pollen, and each square is one week, colored by that week’s highest level.
Google has given no index for Albany since records began on October 14, 2026.
Highest level each week, November 2025 to November 2026, from each day’s forecast.
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleIncludes data from Google Maps
What this forecast doesn’t measure, and when to get help.
Google’s index covers tree, grass and weed pollen only, so there is no mold level for Albany on this page. The National Allergy Bureau publishes pollen and mold counts measured at its stations. Our guides cover common molds such as Alternaria, Cladosporium and Aspergillus.
The forecast doesn’t cover allergens indoors either: dust mites, cockroaches, mice, cats and dogs. Our guides explain each one, starting with dust mites and cats.
An estimated 11.6% of adults in the city of Albany have current asthma, according to the CDC’s PLACES estimate for 2023 (95% confidence interval: 10.4% to 12.9%). It is a statistical estimate from national survey data, not a count.
17 allergists enrolled in Medicare practice in the Albany area: 1.86 for every 100,000 people, more than the 1.22 across the US. The count doesn’t show how soon you can get an appointment. See the doctors listed in the Albany area, or how every state and metro compares.
AllergyNest count from CMS’s Doctors and Clinicians file (October 2026) and Census population estimates for 2025.
The geography, climate and plants behind each season here, with a source for every fact.
Summers at Albany’s airport average about 71 °F, and a typical year allows about 169 days between the last spring freeze and the first fall freeze.1 About 41 inches of precipitation falls in an average year, and snowfall totals about 59 inches.1
Albany was one of four upstate cities, with Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, in a 2007 field study of street tree decay.2 The study notes that maples frequently dominate the street tree population in New York State, often making up over half of it in both small communities and larger cities.2 Many of them replaced American elms lost to the Dutch elm disease epidemic that began in the 1930s.2
The New York Flora Atlas describes common ragweed as a very weedy native species of cultivated ground, roadsides and waste places.3 Along roads it can grow quite thick, though dwarfed, very close to the edge of the pavement.3 The species generally flowers from August to October as the days shorten.4
Answered from the values on this page.
Very little. None of the plants Google models is above 0 in Albany today.
No. It’s Google’s modeled pollen index, from 0 (none) to 5 (very high), calculated for the location of central Albany. A pollen count is the number of pollen grains measured in a cubic meter of air at a counting station. How our pollen index works.
Twice a day. We fetch new values soon after midnight in Albany, so each day starts with its own values, and again after Google’s daily model run, usually by about 10:30 am ET. Each section shows when its values were retrieved.
Source: Includes pollen data from GoogleIncludes data from Google Maps