Grass Pollen Count in Palm Desert, CA — Today

Pollen by type in Palm Desert

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What is the grass pollen count in Palm Desert today?

The Palm Desert grass pollen index today is 5 (Low) on Pollen Atlas’s modelled 0–100 scale. Low

Modelled pollen risk index — not a measured count.

Palm Desert’s overall pollen count today is 35 (Low) across all types. See the full Palm Desert pollen count for the overall index and every type together.

Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California. Its population is 51,551 (ACS 2023).

Palm Desert Grass Pollen Count: 5-Day Forecast

Pollen Atlas models the daily detail as an overall index: day-by-day splits by individual pollen type are not part of the modelled data, so this table shows Palm Desert’s overall trend across the week. Today’s grass pollen reading is the headline above.

Species driving Palm Desert’s grass pollen

The modelled data reports grass as one combined index — there is no species-by-species split for grass anywhere in the data, so this page does not invent one. Today’s modelled grass index for Palm Desert is 5 (Low), and the 5-day overall trend above shows the shape of the week.

As regional context only — not as today’s readings — in the California pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are winter and spring trees, late-spring grasses and late-summer weeds.

The California allergy season guide singles out planted olive and the Central Valley’s concentrated spring pollen.

Plants affecting Palm Desert now — grass pollen

• Grasses (grass): Universal Pollen Index 1 (Very Low) — out of season

Plant detail: Google Pollen API. These readings are on Google’s Universal Pollen Index scale, a separate scale from the grass pollen counts above.

What this grass pollen level means

Google’s Pollen API rates grass pollen very low today.

Pollen levels are very low right now. It's a great day to enjoy the outdoors!

Grasses peak in spring in the Central Valley and run longer and milder on the coast. This month sits outside the usual grass pollen window for the California pattern, so today’s grass pollen reading is the modelled value outranking the calendar — this page reports the modelled reading first. The California allergy season guide singles out planted olive and the Central Valley’s concentrated spring pollen.

Palm Desert allergies today

Palm Desert allergies today are set by the same reading as the Palm Desert pollen count today: the Total Pollen Index is 35 (Low), and the grass pollen index on this page is 5 (Low) of it. When people ask about Palm Desert allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily modelled index built from today’s tree, grass and weed index values for Palm Desert.

Allergies in Palm Desert follow the California calendar set out on the full Palm Desert page — the chapters, the plants behind them, and the 5-day forecast show whether today is typical for the season or an exception to it. If you are checking allergies today in Palm Desert before heading outdoors, the grass pollen split on this page is the part to read: it shows whether this pollen type is doing the work today, not just how high the total sits.

Read the five-day overall trend above as the Palm Desert allergy forecast for the grass pollen season: it shows whether Palm Desert allergies are set to ease or build across the week, day by day — the days to plan outdoor time around are the ones where the overall index steps down, not just today.