SmogRank / Australia / Victoria / Geelong
Geelong, month by month
Geelong has a measured daily mean on 534 days since 1 January 2023. Its worst month was January 2026, at 41 US AQI (7.3 µg/m³), 1,712th of 2,617 cities on that month's world ranking. Its cleanest was September 2024, at 19 US AQI (3.4 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
29 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. |
| Nov 2025 | 10 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 18 with no readings from the monitor, 2 with readings for part of the day (a day needs 18 hours). |
| 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 | 3 of 30 days measured; a month needs 21. The others: 23 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 | 6 of 31 days measured; a month needs 22. The others: 6 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.
Geelong's worst months
| Month | US AQI | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | 417.3 µg/m³ | 1,712thof 2,617 |
| May 2024 | 356.3 µg/m³ | 1,921stof 2,684 |
| August 2024 | 346.1 µg/m³ | 1,733rdof 2,010 |
| December 2025 | 346.1 µg/m³ | 2,428thof 3,006 |
| May 2026 | 336.0 µg/m³ | 1,943rdof 2,874 |
| July 2026 | 335.9 µg/m³ | 2,447thof 2,784 |
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.
Geelong's worst days
| Day | US AQI |
|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2024 | 6516.8 µg/m³ |
| 28 Jun 2026 | 6516.7 µg/m³ |
| 1 Aug 2024 | 6315.7 µg/m³ |
| 19 Jul 2026 | 6315.7 µg/m³ |
| 26 Jun 2026 | 6315.6 µg/m³ |
| 8 May 2024 | 6315.3 µg/m³ |
| 8 Jul 2026 | 6315.3 µg/m³ |
| 27 Jun 2026 | 6214.9 µg/m³ |
| 7 Jul 2024 | 6114.7 µg/m³ |
| 28 Jan 2026 | 6114.5 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, Geelong, 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/geelong/history (accessed 12 Oct 2026).
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Geelong now: the last 24 hours, its ranks today and the last 12 months day by day.
Updated 2026-10-12 20:07 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).