SmogRank / Australia / Victoria / Bendigo
Bendigo, month by month
Bendigo has a measured daily mean on 521 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was January 2026, at 32 US AQI (5.7 µg/m³), 2,199th of 2,617 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was June 2026, at 2 US AQI (0.3 µg/m³).
Every month since 2023
The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales
Months without a mean, and why
30 months
| Month | Why |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 4 of 12 days measured; a month needs 9. The others: 8 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Sep 2026 | No day measured. The others: 30 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Aug 2026 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Apr 2026 | 9 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 17 with no readings from the monitor, 4 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Nov 2025 | 12 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 18 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Oct 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Sep 2025 | No day measured. The others: 30 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Aug 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Jul 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Jun 2025 | No day measured. The others: 30 with no readings from the monitor. |
| May 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Apr 2025 | No day measured. The others: 30 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Mar 2025 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Feb 2025 | No day measured. The others: 28 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Jan 2025 | 8 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 22 with no readings from the monitor, 1 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| Apr 2024 | 19 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 11 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Mar 2024 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Feb 2024 | No day measured. The others: 28 with no readings from the monitor, 1 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Jan 2024 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Dec 2023 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Nov 2023 | No day measured. The others: 30 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Oct 2023 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Sep 2023 | No day measured. The others: 30 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Aug 2023 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Jul 2023 | No day measured. The others: 30 with no readings from the monitor, 1 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Jun 2023 | No day measured. The others: 30 with no readings from the monitor. |
| May 2023 | No day measured. The others: 31 with no readings from the monitor. |
| Apr 2023 | 4 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 22 with no readings from the monitor, 1 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours), 3 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Mar 2023 | 7 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 5 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours), 19 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
| Feb 2023 | 2 of 28 days measured; a month needs 20. The others: 1 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours), 25 missing from OpenAQ's archive. |
A day counts once 18 hours of it are measured; a month needs 70% of its days.
Bendigo's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | 325.7 µg/m³ | 2,199thof 2,617 |
| May 2024 | 274.9 µg/m³ | 2,289thof 2,684 |
| January 2023 | 234.2 µg/m³ | 1,161stof 1,261 |
| August 2024 | 203.6 µg/m³ | 1,978thof 2,010 |
| July 2026 | 193.5 µg/m³ | 2,734thof 2,784 |
| June 2024 | 162.8 µg/m³ | 2,510thof 2,563 |
Monthly means over the days measured; finished months only. World rank: its place on that month's world ranking of every city with enough days. Each month opens that ranking.
Bendigo's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 11 Jan 2026 | 8728.3 µg/m³ |
| 28 Jan 2026 | 8024.5 µg/m³ |
| 13 Jan 2026 | 6014.1 µg/m³ |
| 14 Jan 2026 | 5813.0 µg/m³ |
| 18 Jul 2026 | 5712.5 µg/m³ |
| 4 May 2024 | 5612.0 µg/m³ |
| 23 Apr 2024 | 5511.4 µg/m³ |
| 4 Apr 2023 | 5511.2 µg/m³ |
| 15 Jan 2026 | 5410.9 µg/m³ |
| 27 May 2024 | 5310.3 µg/m³ |
Daily means, the highest since 1 Jan 2023; the WHO's daily guideline is 15 µg/m³. Each date opens that day's world ranking, and each episode the bad-air spell it was part of.
Use this history
SmogRank, PM2.5 monthly and daily means, Bendigo, Australia, 1 Jan 2023 – 12 Oct 2026. Monitor data from EPA Victoria, read from the publisher; sources listed at smogrank.com/sources. smogrank.com/au/bendigo/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Bendigo now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 19:07 UTC. Values are PM2.5 (fine particles), the median of each city's monitors, as the US AQI PM2.5 sub-index. Some low-cost readings: Sensor.Community, ODbL (data and licence). Some readings: Uzhydromet (Uzbekistan's Hydrometeorological Service); Department of Environment, Nepal; Vietnam's government monitors; Aurassure; Umhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency of Iceland); RMCAB (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá); Love My Air (City and County of Denver), no reuse terms published (why we use them).