Ocean City, MD Pollen Count

What is the Ocean City pollen count today?

The Ocean City pollen count today is 9 out of 100 (Low) on the Pollen Atlas Total Pollen Index, driven mainly by Ragweed.

Short answer for anyone searching pollen count today Ocean City: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.

Ocean City allergies today

Ocean City allergies today are set by the same reading as the pollen count above: the Total Pollen Index is 9 (Low), driven mainly by Ragweed. When people ask about Ocean City allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for Ocean City.

Allergies in Ocean City follow the Maryland 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 Ocean City 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 Ocean City allergy forecast: today reads 9 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether Ocean City 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 Ocean City today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.

The Ocean City allergy count today is 9 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.

Pollen count today Ocean City: the 5-day forecast

Pollen Atlas forecasts Ocean City’s pollen count to peak on Sunday at 19 (Low) over the next 5 days.

Pollen by type in Ocean City

• Ocean City tree pollen count
• Ocean City grass pollen count
• Ocean City ragweed pollen count

What is driving Ocean City’s pollen today

The shape of today’s 9 (Low) is set by weed pollen at 11 (Low on its own scale) — about 87% of the four category readings added together, 10 points clear of the next category, grass pollen at 1. A weed-led total is the classic late-year shape: tree and grass pollen have usually receded, leaving weed pollen — and on damp days mold — to make up most of what the index records. Weed pollen leading in November runs against the usual calendar — the Maryland weed chapter runs August to October — 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 Ocean City, so the drivers have to be read from the category split above. The Maryland guide’s account of Maryland names oak, the mid-Atlantic heavyweight, peaking hard in late April and May — 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 9 to 19, never changing band. Today’s 9 sits 6 points below the window’s average of 15 — a moving window, worth reading day by day rather than from the average.

Plants affecting Ocean City now

Detailed plant-by-plant readings for Ocean City 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 0.6 (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 11 (Low).

In the Northeast pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are spring trees, late-spring grasses and late-summer ragweed — 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.

Ocean City pollen through the year

Three chapters make the Maryland pollen year, and Ocean City follows them in the Northeast order. The tree chapter: trees open in late March and build to an oak-led peak in May. The grass chapter: grasses hold from late May into July. The weed chapter: ragweed builds from mid-August, peaks in September, and is ended by the first hard frost. Mold tracks the region’s humidity rather than a flowering calendar, and it fills the gaps between chapters.

Around the Chesapeake, sustained tidewater humidity grows mold that fills the gap between the grass fade and the ragweed build. Garrett County’s western mountains run weeks behind the bay in spring and finish weeks earlier in fall, with harder, sooner frosts. The Maryland guide singles out oak, the mid-Atlantic heavyweight, peaking hard in late April and May.

November falls between the main chapters of the Maryland pollen year — the tail of one and the approach of the next — so the calendar alone explains little today, and the modelled split above carries the story. Between them, the three chapters cover 8 months of the Maryland year, March to October — a compressed season, which is why its chapters arrive in quick succession. The full calendar is set out in the Maryland allergy season guide.

How to read this index

Pollen Atlas reports the Ocean City 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 even in a month when Ocean City, MD pollen is usually more active. 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.

Ocean City in today’s national picture

At 9 (Low), Ocean City ranks joint 80103rd 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 Ocean City: West Ocean City, MD (4 miles away) reads 7 (Low); Ocean Pines, MD (4 miles away) reads 9 (Low); Fenwick Island, DE (5 miles away) reads 8 (Low). Ocean City reads 2 points higher than its nearest tracked neighbour today. Across Maryland’s 534 tracked cities, today runs from 5 in Annapolis to 26 in Fountainhead-Orchard Hills.

Pollen totals are population numbers; symptoms are personal. The same reading can leave one Ocean City resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every season, allergists in Ocean City, MD 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.

Ocean City in its local area

Across Maryland’s 534 tracked cities, Ocean City ranks joint 273rd today.

Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the Ocean City, MD pollen count is refreshed each morning.

Nearby cities

• West Ocean City pollen count (4 miles away)
• Ocean Pines pollen count (4 miles away)
• Bishopville pollen count (8 miles away)
• Berlin pollen count (9 miles away)
• Whaleyville pollen count (12 miles away)
• Newark pollen count (15 miles away)

From Pollen Atlas News

• Maryland allergy season
• Ragweed season