Ragweed Pollen Count in Palm Desert, CA — Today

Pollen by type in Palm Desert

• Palm Desert tree pollen count
• Palm Desert grass pollen count
• Palm Desert pollen count

What is the ragweed pollen count in Palm Desert today?

The Palm Desert ragweed pollen index today is 42 (Moderate) on Pollen Atlas’s modelled 0–100 scale. Moderate

Modelled pollen risk index — not a measured count.

Ragweed pollen is the dominant allergen in Palm Desert today. 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 Ragweed 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 ragweed pollen reading is the headline above.

Species driving Palm Desert’s ragweed pollen

Species-level counts are not part of the modelled data Pollen Atlas publishes — the modelled index is reported per pollen type, not per species — so this section gives the type summary: ragweed pollen reads 42 (Moderate) today. The plant-by-plant detail that is available, from the Google Pollen API, is in the next section.

How to read this: the “ragweed” figure on this site is the modelled weed pollen index — the weed group (ragweed + mugwort) — printed under the ragweed name the rankings use.

Plants affecting Palm Desert now — ragweed pollen

• Ragweed (weed): 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 ragweed pollen counts above.

What this ragweed pollen level means

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

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

Weeds follow in late summer and fall, stronger after wet winters. This month sits outside the usual ragweed pollen window for the California pattern, so today’s ragweed 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 ragweed pollen index on this page is 42 (Moderate) 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 ragweed 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 ragweed 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.