Im sure LA smog is the worst, but is there also a smog problem in San Diego?

Answer 1

San Diego and Los Angeles can not be compared.
It would be better to compare San Diego and San Francisco.
Both are coastal cities. LA is located about 25 miles inland and about 5 times larger than San Diego.
So to answer your question LA smog is not that bad it has improved with cleaner burning fuels. And The City of San Diego does not have a smog problem at all. The cool ocean breeze sends it all to Arizona.

Answer 2

The first two answers were by people who know nothing; it bugs me when people who have no idea of what they are talking about answer questions because then people get misleading information. The cities are more than 100 miles apart.

I have lived both places and there is no comparison. Cities are situated differently geographically. LA is in a basin; San Diego has the main part of the city in the coastal area with no smog problem. It's inland (El Cajon, Alpine) where the smog gets bad...and that's like 30 miles inland or so. Most of San Diego is much closer to the coast.

I live in coastal north San Diego county; can remember detectable smog maybe two days total of the last 2 years.

Answer 3

In the six years I have been in SD I have never seen a smog alert or warning issued and they rarely if ever talk about bad air quality on the news. Most of the smog gets blown inland into the foothills, which is why the town of Alpine has the worst air quality in the county even though it is largely rural, but even then it's nothing compared to Riverside or the Inland Empire.

San Diego doesn't have a lot of industry like LA and we have much less cars and traffic and our weather is milder than the LA basin. Either the smog is blown inland towards the mountains away from the metro area or during Santa Ana wind events it's blown out westward over the ocean, away from the metro area too. Smog is not a problem in San Diego overall, especially in coastal areas. Also if you look in the San Diego Union-Tribune on their weather page it shows the air quality forecast for different parts of San Diego.

Answer 4

There is a ton of smog in San Diego. Go up a hill and look down. It is brown haze everywhere. These people are nuts. San Diego is in the top 5 cities in the USA consistently for bad air.

Answer 5

I lived in San Diego for nearly two decades and I think during all of that time I only experienced one smog alert. Yes, Los Angeles and San Diego are fairly close to each other, but the quality of air between the two is enormous.

Answer 6

stay as close as conceivable to the coast, the smog would properly be undesirable out interior the valley's and inland empire yet completely ok alongside the coast. in the process the summer season winds tend to blow from west to east and push all the smog inland. circumvent places east of Downtown l. a. and the San Fernando Valley for undesirable smog. regrettably because of the fact the mountains are authentic up against l. a., an excellent kind of smog would properly be blown into mountain communities so as that would no longer be the suited place to pass, except you pass up extremely severe or perhaps then you definately could no longer be interior the smog yet you would be staring at it under. in the time of Santa Ana winds the winds blow from east to west and push each and every of the smog over the sea, coastline communities nonetheless have respectable air high quality in the time of those cases b/c that's get pushed out removed from land. and by way of Santa Ana winds the smog makes for the main fantastic sunsets; sounds weird and wonderful and style of gross even nevertheless that's authentic. San Diego in no way has smog issues so which you would be able to continuously head south, plus this is a huge place to pass to and the place an excellent kind of Angeleno's pass to flee l. a.. because of the fact your pastime is in West l. a. you're able to need to stay interior of sight and that section is a sturdy section to circumvent undesirable smog.

Answer 7

I live in San Diego and no the smog here is not as bad as LA. It's generally low to moderate air pollution here with areas in the inland valleys that are near the foothills, and those right next to major freeways being the worst areas.

Answer 8

No. Lived there for 20 yrs, no smog it is almost a 2 hr drive to LA, terrible smog. We got trapped on S. I - 5 for 21/2 hrs recently, thought we would choke, next time we'll take a tank of oxygen and masks.

Answer 9

Yes, you'll get the same amount of smog there (in San Diego) as you would have in LA, I'm afraid.

Answer 10

I'm a S.D. native and there's never been a smog problem here to me. Nothing at all like L.A....can't even compare.