Ragweed Pollen Count in Cape Town, South Africa

Pollen by type in Cape Town

• Cape Town tree pollen count
• Cape Town grass pollen count
• Cape Town pollen count

What is the ragweed pollen count in Cape Town today?

The Cape Town ragweed pollen index today is 23 (Low) on Pollen Atlas’s modelled 0–100 scale. Low

Modelled pollen risk index — not a measured count.

Cape Town’s overall pollen count today is 28 (Low) across all types. See the full Cape Town pollen count for the overall index and every type together.

Cape Town is in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Its population is 4,772,846 (GeoNames).

Cape Town 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 Cape Town’s overall trend across the week. Today’s ragweed pollen reading is the headline above.

Species driving Cape Town’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 23 (Low) 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 Cape Town now — ragweed pollen

Detailed plant-by-plant readings for the ragweed pollen category were not returned in today’s source data for Cape Town. The type summary stands: ragweed pollen reads 23 (Low) today.

In the Global pattern, the plants that shape this city’s year vary with its local climate and vegetation, and no single regional calendar is published for this area — 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 ragweed pollen level means

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

Enjoy outdoor activities.

Weed pollen seasons vary with local climate and vegetation, and no regional calendar is asserted for this area. No regional calendar is asserted for this area, so today’s ragweed pollen reading is reported as a modelled index value, without placing this month inside or outside a regional window. No South Africa allergy season guide is published yet, so the seasonal context here follows the Global regional pattern.

Cape Town allergies today

Cape Town allergies today are set by the same reading as the Cape Town pollen count today: the Total Pollen Index is 28 (Low), and the ragweed pollen index on this page is 23 (Low) of it. When people ask about Cape Town allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily modelled index built from today’s tree, grass and weed index values for Cape Town.

Allergies in Cape Town follow the South Africa calendar set out on the full Cape Town 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 Cape Town 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 Cape Town allergy forecast for the ragweed pollen season: it shows whether Cape Town 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.