Santa Maria, TX Pollen Count Today
Santa Maria, TX · Updated Saturday, November 7, 2026
Pollen Overview
Today's overall pollen level and the dominant type (trees, weeds, grass, or mold).
Total Pollen Index
The combined pollen level across all types (0–100).
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Weeds Index
How active weeds pollen is today (0–100).
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Pollen Types
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5-Day Santa Maria Overall Pollen Forecast
Bars are colored by severity (Low/Moderate/High).
Pollen count Santa Maria residents check each morning
The Santa Maria pollen count today is 14 (Low). The main driver is Ragweed, with weed pollen at 16 today. That total sits on a narrow base: weed pollen is 16 while tree pollen is just 8 and grass pollen 5. Plant-by-plant detail for Santa Maria, TX follows, along with the outlook for the days ahead. Pollen Atlas updated this count on Saturday, November 7, 2026.
A Low band on the Pollen Atlas index means the Total Pollen Index has stayed in the lower part of the 0–100 scale. Readings in this band are built from low individual category values rather than from one large spike, and the category split above matters more than the headline number: a low total can still contain one category, such as weed pollen or mold, reading noticeably higher than the rest, which is why the split is printed on every Santa Maria page.
Fall is ragweed season across most of the United States: ragweed plants release pollen from late summer into autumn, and weed pollen is typically the last major outdoor pollen category to fade as the weather cools. That pattern is why an autumn total is so often weed-led even when the headline number is low — tree and grass pollen have usually receded by then, leaving weed pollen, and on damp days mold, to make up most of what the index records.
To see whether today’s pollen level holds, check the 5-day Santa Maria pollen forecast below — it is currently mixed, with Tuesday the highest day in the window.
This is the pollen count Santa Maria residents check each morning, built from the day’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings.
What is the Santa Maria pollen count today?
The Santa Maria pollen count today is 14 out of 100 (Low) on the Pollen Atlas Total Pollen Index, driven mainly by Ragweed.
Short answer for anyone searching pollen count today Santa Maria: this page is updated every morning with the day’s modelled reading.
Santa Maria allergies today
Santa Maria allergies today are set by the same reading as the pollen count above: the Total Pollen Index is 14 (Low), driven mainly by Ragweed. When people ask about Santa Maria allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily index built from today’s tree, grass, weed and mold readings for Santa Maria.
Allergies in Santa Maria follow the Texas 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 Santa Maria 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 Santa Maria allergy forecast: today reads 14 (Low), and the day-by-day outlook shows whether Santa Maria 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 Santa Maria today records is this same combined reading — tree, grass, weed and mold in one index.
The Santa Maria allergy count today is 14 (Low) — the same Total Pollen Index as the pollen count above, in one combined reading.
Pollen count today Santa Maria: the 5-day forecast
| Day | Total Pollen Index | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, November 7 | 14 | Low |
| Sunday, November 8 | 13 | Low |
| Monday, November 9 | 12 | Low |
| Tuesday, November 10 | 29 | Low |
| Wednesday, November 11 | 13 | Low |
Pollen Atlas forecasts Santa Maria’s pollen count to peak on Tuesday at 29 (Low) over the next 5 days.
Pollen by type in Santa Maria
What is driving Santa Maria’s pollen today
The shape of today’s 14 (Low) is set by weed pollen at 16 (Low on its own scale) — about 55% of the four category readings added together, 8 points clear of the next category, tree pollen at 8. 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 is the Texas calendar working as expected — November falls in the closing weeks of the state’s weed chapter.
Plant-level detail is not in today’s feed for Santa Maria, so the drivers have to be read from the category split above. The Texas guide’s account of Texas names mountain cedar — Ashe juniper — in winter, oak in spring and ragweed from August — 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 12 to 29, never changing band. Today’s 14 sits 2 points below the window’s average of 16.2 — a moving window, worth reading day by day rather than from the average.
Plants affecting Santa Maria now
Detailed plant-by-plant readings for Santa Maria 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 8 (Low).
Grass pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 5 (Low).
Weed pollen is one of the categories with a non-zero reading today, at 16 (Low).
In the Gulf & South Texas pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are spring trees, warm-season grasses, late-summer ragweed and winter mountain cedar in the west of the region — 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.
Santa Maria pollen through the year
Chapter by chapter, the Santa Maria pollen year runs like this:
- Mountain cedar runs from December to March in the west of the region, and oak leads the spring.
- Grasses carry the hot months, with mold close behind in the Gulf humidity.
- Ragweed runs from August toward a mild, late finish.
- Outdoor mold stays elevated for much of the year in the Gulf humidity and can co-headline a reading in any month.
The Texas allergy season guide names mountain cedar — Ashe juniper — in winter, oak in spring and ragweed from August. Texas runs four seasons back to back — cedar from December to March, oak and other trees in spring, grasses through summer, ragweed to the first frost — so its true low window is short. Pollen seasons are generally growing longer and more intense across the Northern Hemisphere, research by Ziska and colleagues (2019) found — a trend Texas’s near-year-round calendar already illustrates.
November in Santa Maria sits inside the weed chapter of the Texas year, in its closing weeks — the part of the calendar today’s readings should be judged against. Between them, the three chapters touch every month of the Texas year — there is no reliably empty month in this calendar. The full calendar is set out in the Texas allergy season guide.
How to read this index
Pollen Atlas reports the Santa Maria 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 Santa Maria, TX 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.
Santa Maria in today’s national picture
At 14 (Low), Santa Maria ranks joint 71898th of the 90896 cities Pollen Atlas tracks today — in the middle of the national table. The highest reading in the country today is Beja, Portugal at 52, and the lowest is Los Ángeles de San Rafael, Spain at 5. The whole table spans 47 points today — a wide-open day, when the top and bottom of the table are effectively in different seasons.
Around Santa Maria: Iglesia Antigua, TX (1 miles away) reads 14 (Low); Bluetown, TX (2 miles away) reads 14 (Low); Relampago, TX (4 miles away) reads 14 (Low). Santa Maria reads exactly level with its nearest tracked neighbour today. Across Texas’s 1843 tracked cities, today runs from 7 in Van Horn to 42 in Gunter.
Pollen totals are population numbers; symptoms are personal. The same reading can leave one Santa Maria resident untouched and floor another, depending on which pollens they are sensitised to. If this pattern finds you every ragweed season, allergists in Santa Maria, TX 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.
Santa Maria in its local area
Across Texas’s 1843 tracked cities, Santa Maria ranks joint 1454th today.
Like every Pollen Atlas city page, the Santa Maria, TX pollen count is refreshed each morning.
Nearby cities
- Iglesia Antigua pollen count (1 miles away)
- Bluetown pollen count (2 miles away)
- Relampago pollen count (4 miles away)
- Bixby pollen count (5 miles away)
- La Feria pollen count (6 miles away)
- Mercedes pollen count (7 miles away)
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Pollen indexes: a modelled pollen risk index computed by Pollen Atlas from open weather, vegetation and phenology data, calibrated against CDC/NAB season data. Plant detail: Google Pollen API. Index values are modelled, not measured counts. Sources: CDC/NAB; USA-NPN; GBIF (CC BY); ESA WorldCover (CC BY 4.0).