El Capitan, AZ Pollen Count
El Capitan, AZ · Last updated Friday, November 6, 2026
This page shows the most recent reading available for El Capitan — from Friday, November 6, 2026 (1 day ago) — not today's reading.
Pollen Overview
Today's overall pollen level and the dominant type (trees, weeds, grass, or mold).
Total Pollen Index
The combined pollen level across all types (0–100).
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Weeds Index
How active weeds pollen is today (0–100).
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Pollen Types
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5-Day El Capitan Overall Pollen Forecast
Bars are colored by severity (Low/Moderate/High).
Pollen count El Capitan residents check each morning
The El Capitan pollen count today is 16 (Low). The main driver is Ragweed, with weed pollen at 15 today. Tree pollen is the highest single category in the split at 18 (Low), ahead of weed pollen at 15 and grass pollen at 1. Below, the plant detail and the multi-day outlook show whether today is the pattern or the exception. Pollen Atlas updated this count on Friday, November 6, 2026.
A Low band on the Pollen Atlas index means the Total Pollen Index has stayed in the lower part of the 0–100 scale. Readings in this band are built from low individual category values rather than from one large spike, and the category split above matters more than the headline number: a low total can still contain one category, such as tree pollen, reading noticeably higher than the rest, which is why the split is printed on every El Capitan page.
Desert Southwest pollen does not follow a single national calendar. Arid conditions limit some pollen types for much of the year, while irrigated urban landscaping introduces trees and grasses that would not otherwise grow in the desert, and wind can move pollen across an open landscape efficiently. Readings in this region in particular should be judged against their own split and their own recent days, not against humid-region expectations: a low total here reflects today’s modelled categories, whatever the month.
To see whether today’s pollen level holds, check the 5-day El Capitan pollen forecast below — it is currently mixed, with Saturday the highest day in the window.
This is the pollen count El Capitan residents check each morning, built from the day’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings.
What is the El Capitan pollen count today?
The El Capitan pollen count today is 16 out of 100 (Low) on the Pollen Atlas Total Pollen Index, driven mainly by Ragweed.
Short answer for anyone searching pollen count today El Capitan: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.
El Capitan allergies today
El Capitan allergies today are set by the same reading as the pollen count above: the Total Pollen Index is 16 (Low), driven mainly by Ragweed. When people ask about El Capitan allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for El Capitan.
Allergies in El Capitan follow the Arizona calendar set out below — the chapters, the plants behind them, and the 5-day forecast on this page show whether today is typical for the season or an exception to it. If you are checking allergies today in El Capitan before heading outdoors, the split at the top of this page is the part to read: it shows which pollen is doing the work today, not just how high the total sits.
Read the five-day table on this page as the El Capitan allergy forecast: today reads 16 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether El Capitan allergies are set to ease or build across the week — the days to plan outdoor time around are the ones where the index steps down, not just today.
In practice, the allergy count El Capitan today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.
The El Capitan allergy count today is 16 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.
Pollen count today El Capitan: the 5-day forecast
| Day | Total Pollen Index | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, November 6 | 16 | Low |
| Saturday, November 7 | 17 | Low |
| Sunday, November 8 | 17 | Low |
| Monday, November 9 | 16 | Low |
| Tuesday, November 10 | 14 | Low |
Pollen Atlas forecasts El Capitan’s pollen count to peak on Saturday at 17 (Low) over the next 5 days.
Pollen by type in El Capitan
What is driving El Capitan’s pollen today
The shape of today’s 16 (Low) is set by tree pollen at 18 (Low on its own scale) — about 53% of the four category readings added together, 3 points clear of the next category, weed pollen at 15. Tree readings are the fastest-moving of the four in their season, because species pollinate in sequence — a tree-led total can change character within a week. Tree pollen leading in November runs against the usual calendar — the Arizona tree chapter runs January to May — so today’s lead is the model outranking the pattern, and this page reports the modelled reading first.
Plant-level detail is not in today’s feed for El Capitan, so the drivers have to be read from the category split above. The Arizona guide’s account of Arizona names mulberry, ash and olive — planted trees, not wild desert flora — the pollens behind readings of this shape in this state — and the split shows how much of today’s total each category is actually carrying.
Across the five-day window the Total Pollen Index runs from 14 to 17, never changing band. Today’s 16 sits level with the window’s average of 16 — a steady window, in which one day reads much like the next.
Plants affecting El Capitan now
Detailed plant-by-plant readings for El Capitan were not returned in today\u2019s source data, so this section summarises the pollen types the index above is built from instead of listing individual plants.
Tree pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 18 (Low).
Grass pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 1 (Low).
Weed pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 15 (Low).
In the Desert Southwest pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are irrigated landscape trees and grasses, with wind-carried weeds in open ground — named here as regional context only, not as today\u2019s measurements.
Plant detail returns here automatically on any day the source data includes it.
Every pollen type, with photos and seasons: the pollen directory.
El Capitan pollen through the year
Three chapters make the Arizona pollen year, and El Capitan follows them in the Desert Southwest order. The tree chapter: planted trees open in winter — the juniper family and ash first, mulberry at the heart of spring. The grass chapter: irrigated Bermuda grass runs long rather than intense, across much of the warm season. The weed chapter: a final weed wave follows the monsoon rains into fall, with monsoon mold in the same weeks.
Arizona’s season arrives in waves shaped by desert botany and desert weather, with a midsummer heat lull and a mold bump when the monsoon breaks. Phoenix and Tucson often peak weeks apart: Tucson sits at roughly 2,400 feet against Phoenix’s 1,100, and its cooler nights delay its tree wave by a matter of weeks. The Arizona guide singles out mulberry, ash and olive — planted trees, not wild desert flora.
November in El Capitan sits in the overlap of the grass and weed chapters of the Arizona year — overlap weeks, when two chapters feed the same total and the split matters more than the headline. Between them, the three chapters cover 11 months of the Arizona year, January to November — a long season by national standards, with only a short quiet gap. The full calendar is set out in the Arizona allergy season guide.
How to read this index
Pollen Atlas reports the El Capitan pollen count on a Total Pollen Index from 0 to 100, built from separate tree, grass and weed readings. The total is a summary, not an average of the three: a single strong category can lift it, and three quiet categories can hold it down whatever the month. Index values are a modelled pollen risk index computed by Pollen Atlas from open weather, vegetation and phenology data, calibrated against CDC/NAB season data, with plant detail by the Google Pollen API. The index is a modelled 0–100 scale, not a measured count, and figures update through the day, so a morning and an evening visit to this page can legitimately show different numbers.
El Capitan in today’s national picture
At 16 (Low), El Capitan ranks joint 63579th of the 90896 cities Pollen Atlas tracks today — in the middle of the national table. The highest reading in the country today is Serpa, Portugal at 53, and the lowest is Galiakberovo, Russia at 5. The whole table spans 48 points today — a wide-open day, when the top and bottom of the table are effectively in different seasons.
Around El Capitan: Icehouse Canyon, AZ (8 miles away) reads 16 (Low); Six Shooter Canyon, AZ (9 miles away) reads 16 (Low); East Globe, AZ (9 miles away) reads 16 (Low). El Capitan reads exactly level with its nearest tracked neighbour today. Across Arizona’s 465 tracked cities, today runs from 5 in Fort Valley to 36 in Rillito.
Pollen totals are population numbers; symptoms are personal. The same reading can leave one El Capitan resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every ragweed season, allergists in El Capitan, AZ can test whether tree, grass, weed or mold is the category that matters for you — the four readings at the top of this page are the starting point for that conversation.
El Capitan in its local area
Across Arizona’s 465 tracked cities, El Capitan ranks joint 342nd today.
Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the El Capitan, AZ pollen count is refreshed each morning.
Nearby cities
- Icehouse Canyon pollen count (8 miles away)
- Six Shooter Canyon pollen count (9 miles away)
- East Globe pollen count (9 miles away)
- Dripping Springs pollen count (9 miles away)
- Pinal pollen count (10 miles away)
- Cutter pollen count (11 miles away)
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Pollen indexes: a modelled pollen risk index computed by Pollen Atlas from open weather, vegetation and phenology data, calibrated against CDC/NAB season data. Plant detail: Google Pollen API. Index values are modelled, not measured counts. Sources: CDC/NAB; USA-NPN; GBIF (CC BY); ESA WorldCover (CC BY 4.0).