Tree Pollen Count in Palm Desert, CA

Pollen by type in Palm Desert

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What is the tree pollen count in Palm Desert today?

The Palm Desert tree pollen index today is 21 (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 Tree 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 tree pollen reading is the headline above.

Species driving Palm Desert’s tree 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: tree pollen reads 21 (Low) today. The plant-by-plant detail that is available, from the Google Pollen API, is in the next section.

Plants affecting Palm Desert now — tree pollen

Detailed plant-by-plant readings for the tree pollen category were not returned in today’s source data for Palm Desert. The type summary stands: tree pollen reads 21 (Low) today.

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 — named here as regional context only, not as today’s readings.

Plant detail returns here automatically on any day the feed includes it.

What this tree pollen level means

Low risk. Keep windows open; consider allergy meds only if sensitive.

Enjoy outdoor activities.

Trees build through spring, with planted olive peaking from March into May. This month sits outside the usual tree pollen window for the California pattern, so today’s tree 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 tree pollen index on this page is 21 (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 tree 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 tree 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.